ESSER III Survey

The Hart County Charter System is seeking stakeholder input regarding the use of ESSER III funds. The American Rescue Plan Act provides funding for local educational agencies to respond to COVID-19. Your feedback will be considered as the district budgets available funds. Please complete the following survey for your input to be considered. Click here to complete the survey.

BOE Regular Meeting

The Hart County Board of Education (BOE) will have a regular meeting on Monday, October 16, 2023, at 6:00 p.m. The meeting will take place at the Hart County BOE office located at 284 Campbell Drive, Hartwell.

BOE Called Meeting

Proposed Property Tax Increase

The Hart County Board of Education today announces its intention to increase the 2023 property taxes it will levy this year by 3.74 percent over the rollback millage rate.

Each year, the board of tax assessors is required to review the assessed value for property tax purposes of taxable property in the county. When the trend of prices on properties that have recently sold in the county indicate there has been an increase in the fair market value of any specific property, the board of tax assessors is required by law to re‐determine the value of such property and adjust the assessment. This is called a reassessment. 

When the total digest of taxable property is prepared, Georgia law requires a rollback millage rate must by computed that will produce the same total revenue on the current year’s digest that last year’s millage rate would have produced had no reassessments occurred.

The budget adopted by the Hart County Board of Education requires a millage rate higher than the rollback millage rate; therefore, before the Hart County Board of Education may set a final millage rate, Georgia law requires three public hearings to be held to allow the public an opportunity to express their opinions on the increase.

All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearings on this tax increase to be held at the Hart County Board of Education Central Office, 284 Campbell Drive, Hartwell, Georgia on October 9, 2023 at 8:30 AM and 6:00 PM and on October 16, 2023 at 5:00 PM.

COVID-19 Protocol

The Hart County Charter System is maintaining its COVID-19 Protocol for the 2023-2024 School Year. Click here to view the protocol for the 2023-2024 school year.

Free/Reduced-Price Meal Applications

Free and Reduced Meal Applications for the Hart County Charter System are now available online for the 2023-2024 school year. New applications must be submitted each year. Parents/guardians can now apply for free/reduced meals by visiting www.myschoolapps.com, or by picking up a paper application at their child’s school or the Hart County Board of Education office.