Cliffside Elementary School

10/16/2026

FUTURE FOCUSED FRIDAY | Investing in Students. Building Brighter Futures! 💙💚

The future of Rutherford County starts with the students we support today! Through the Rutherford County Schools Education Foundation, our community is helping create opportunities and brighter futures for students across our district.

Parents, local businesses, and community members: we invite YOU to invest in the future of Rutherford County!

Your support helps make a difference through programs like:

* RCS Backpack Program – Fighting childhood hunger.

* Helping Hands for Homeless Students – Providing hope and assistance to students and families in need.

* Teacher Mini Grants – Bringing innovative classroom ideas to life.

* Project STEAM – Inspiring tomorrow's innovators, creators, and problem-solvers.

By becoming an annual member of the RCS Education Foundation, you're joining a community committed to ensuring our students have the resources, opportunities, and support they need to succeed.

The future is ours to shape, and together, we can make it brighter!

Become a community member today: Visit rcsedfoundation.org/membership to learn more and join!

10/15/2026

10/15/2026

10/13/2026

Cliffside Elementary School would like to extend a heartfelt THANK YOU to our wonderful Fall Festival sponsors! Your generosity and support help make this special event possible for our students, families, and community. We are truly blessed to have such amazing businesses and community partners who continue to invest in our Cliffside Eagles!

We appreciate your kindness, generosity, and commitment to making a difference at Cliffside Elementary!

10/13/2026

We are TWO days away from Fall Festival! We hope to see you there!

10/13/2026

TRANSPARENCY TUESDAY | Personnel represents the second major component of expenditures from the Local Current Expense Fund. As part of the 2026–2027 Initial Budget Resolution, $8,285,859.36 is budgeted for personnel expenditures from this fund.

As the accompanying graphic illustrates, the largest single component is employee benefits at $2,622,141.03, or 31.6%. Other major expenditures include teachers at $1,171,126.94 (14.1%); local supplements at $1,118,032.98 (13.5%); maintenance personnel at $1,019,094.98 (12.3%); and short-term disability and annual leave payouts at $905,723.85 (10.9%).

The remaining personnel expenditures include office support at $508,480.50 (6.1%); central office administration at $493,954.01 (6.0%); assistant principals at $307,585.30 (3.7%); teacher assistants and instructional support at $111,479.23 (1.3%); principals at $21,030.54 (0.3%); and custodians at $7,210.00 (0.1%).

These figures also illustrate an important feature of public school finance: personnel costs extend beyond salaries. Employee benefits and local salary supplements alone account for approximately $3.74 million, or 45.1%, of personnel expenditures from the Local Current Expense Fund. Local funding therefore supports not only locally funded positions and portions of positions, but also compensation and employer costs associated with maintaining the district’s workforce.

10/12/2026

MYTH BUSTER MONDAY |

MYTH: The Other Specific Revenue Fund is a catch-all for revenues that don’t fit anywhere else.

FACT: The Other Specific Revenue Fund accounts for particular types of revenue specifically identified by state law.

The name can be misleading at first glance. North Carolina law establishes the Other Specific Revenue Fund as an accounting mechanism for designated types of funding, including reimbursements, fees for actual costs, certain sales tax revenues and refunds, restricted gifts and grants, trust funds, federal appropriations made directly to school districts, certain municipal appropriations, and funds received for prekindergarten programs.

For 2026–2027, Rutherford County Schools has budgeted $5,770,161.28 in the Other Specific Revenue Fund. As the accompanying graphic illustrates, those revenues include $2,042,397.95 in local and other revenues (35.4%), $1,987,495.33 in federal revenues (34.4%), and $1,740,268.00 in state revenues (30.2%).

What defines this fund, then, is not simply that its revenues come from sources other than the district’s primary state and local operating funds. Rather, state law specifies the kinds of revenues that may be accounted for here, and those revenues carry particular purposes, restrictions, or conditions governing their use