To increase efficiency, improve communication with parents, and most importantly, enhance student safety. The Student Success Cards will allow Administrators and Safety and Security personnel to quickly and easily identify students.

es. Your card will automatically be connected to the Columbus Metropolitan Library system as long as you have not previously elected to be withdrawn from Directory Information.

If you have lost or damaged your card, a new card can be requested by notifying the secretary at your child’s school. If your card was recently lost, we ask that you look for one day before reporting the card as lost. If it is still lost after that time, please notify the school secretary and a new card will be issued.

If your student’s card has an incorrect or outdated photo, please notify the school secretary.  Once a new photo has been taken and uploaded to the student information system, the school secretary will be able to request a new card.

Students moving within the CCS school district will be issued another Student Success Card at their new school.

Yes. Students are expected to wear the Student Success Card both on the bus and during the school day.

Student Success Cards are not used to track our students! The card reader on the bus simply accounts for the student’s movement on or off the bus. Student Directory information is only shared with the Columbus Metropolitan Library per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and Board Policy.

PreK through third grade students or those that do not know their PIN may use their Student Success Card in order to get breakfast and/or lunch.  Student Success Cards will also be used to be admitted to athletic events when identification is required.