Blue Ridge School (North Carolina)

Blue Ridge School is a public combined Elementary, Middle, and High School located in Cashiers, North Carolina and is part of the Jackson County Public Schools System. It is the smallest school in the district and resulted from the consolidation of the larger Glenville Elementary and High School and the smaller Cashiers Elementary School in 1975. The building consists of three 100' diameter round "pods," which have no permanent partitions, with one hallway for each radiating into a central pod that houses a lobby and the school's front offices. The school is very similar to Fairview Elementary School in Sylva, but Blue Ridge is smaller than Fairview, no stage and the library isn't in a pod, as well as having grades 7-12 in two detached classroom buildings, making up the "Virtual Early College" component of the school. The other schools with a high school program in the county are Smoky Mountain High School and Jackson County Early College. Blue Ridge serves the towns of Cashiers and Glenville as well as the communities of Sapphire, Fairfield, and Whiteside Cove with public education.

Blue Ridge School
Location
95 Bobcat Drive

,
28717

United States
Coordinates35°07′46″N 83°07′14″W
Information
School typePublic K-12 School
Established1975 (1975)
School districtJackson County Public Schools
PrincipalTeri Walawender
Faculty~30
Enrollment293
Campus typeRural
Color(s)Green and gold
  
MascotBobcats
Websitewww.jcpsnc.org/brs
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