Members from AC’s 2024-2025 Chick-fil-A Leader Academy visited the Chick-fil-A Support Center in March of 2025. They wrapped up AC’s 2nd year of CFLA by completing their Impact Project at Journey-Sherwood through cleaning, organizing, and gardening
Students in grades 7-12 are required to complete Community Service hours as follows:
Seniors: 20 hours
Juniors: 16 hours
Sophomores: 12 hours
Freshman:10 hours
8th Graders: 8 hours
7th Graders: 6 hours
Every student’s community service hours must be completed with at least half of the total hours fulfilled through in-person service.
Steps to Earning Community Service
- Pick up a community service verification form outside of the Guidance Office prior to working at the agency.
- Call the social agency and make arrangements.
- Complete the service verification form and have a person from the agency sign it and provide a phone number.
- Bring the completed verification form to the Guidance Office.
All community service hours must be completed by April 30th of each school year. Students will be suspended for one day if community service requirements are not met by this date. The suspension date will be specified by the Administration. Community service hours begin May 1st of the current school year and run through April 30th of the next school year.
Work which qualifies also includes: Salvation Army, Park and Recreation Department, Junior Red Cross (hospital), Soup Kitchens/Rescue Missions, Columbia and Richmond County Humane Society, Summer mission trips and Vacation Bible School or other verified church sponsored program.
A maximum of 2 hours can be earned through preparing a box for Operation Christmas Child, providing supplies through a drive at school for Golden Harvest or Lydia Project, and providing casseroles to the Ronald McDonald House. This excludes the number of hours of service a student could earn by volunteering at the Golden Harvest Food Bank, Operation Christmas Child Headquarters, and/or the Ronald McDonald House.
Community service requires the student going outside of their usual daily contacts to help a social agency. Therefore, work that does not qualify includes any church ministry (aside from Vacation Bible School and missions), work for an individual (parent, coach, teacher, neighbor, etc.), work for any relative (at home or work) and work for any business (example: bank, restaurant, grocery store, etc.) not considered a social service agency.