Established 1975 Enrollment 293 District Jackson County Schools Color Green | Faculty About 30 Phone +1 828-743-2646 Mascot Bobcats | |
School type Public K-12 School (U.S.) School district Jackson County Public Schools Principal Theresa Winburn, Beverly VanHook-Schrey Address 95 Bobcat Dr, Cashiers, NC 28717, USA Similar Highlands School, Summit Charter School, Scotts Creek Elementa, Jackson County Board‑Ed, Southwes Community College | ||
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.