Cherokee County (North Carolina) School District

Cherokee County (North Carolina) School District
Cherokee County School District
Address
911 Andrews Road
Murphy, North Carolina, 28906
 United States
Coordinates 35°05′23″N 84°01′48″W / 35.089722°N 84.03°W / 35.089722; -84.03Coordinates: 35°05′23″N 84°01′48″W / 35.089722°N 84.03°W / 35.089722; -84.03[1]
Information
Superintendent Dr. Stephen Lane
Faculty 524 (281 full time teachers)
Grades Pre-K - 12
Enrollment 3,820
Telephone 828 837-2722
Website

The Cherokee County School District manages the 13 schools in Cherokee County, NC, USA with an enrollment of 3,820 students and a 12.7 student to teacher ratio.[2]

The School Superintendent is Dr. Stephen Lane.[3]

Contents

Schools

Elementary Schools

  • Andrews Elementary
  • Marble Elementary school, located on Airport Road in Marble, North Carolina, houses children in grades prek thru 5th, and is a feeder school for Andrews Middle School.
  • Murphy Elementary School serves grades prek-5 and has approximately 383 students.[4][5][6]
  • Peachtree Elementary

Elementary-Middle Schools

Hiwassee Dam Elementary Middle School is a primary school offering grades K-8 located in Murphy, North Carolina.[7][8]

Martins Creek Elementary-Middle School is a primary school with an enrollment of approximately 265 students in grades Pre-K through 8th grade. The 61 acre campus includes playgrounds, hiking trails, mountain biking trails and a multi-functional gymnasium. The school has received numerous awards and distinctions including being in the top 25 Schools of Excellence in the North Carolina ABC program[9], a School of Distinction, a School of Exemplary Growth and was included in PC Magazine's Top 100 Wired Schools in the nation.[citation needed] It is also one of the few schools in the state to be recognized as achieving exemplary growth every year since the ABCs Program began [10][11][12]

Ranger Elementary Middle also offers grades K-8 in Murphy, North Carolina.

Middle Schools

Andrews Middle School in Andrews, North Carolina serves grades 6-8 and is one of only four middle schools in the Cherokee School District. As of 2007 it had an active enrollment of 255 students and a full time teaching staff of 24 teachers giving an average of 11 students per teacher.[13][14][15]

Murphy Middle School is a middle school located in Murphy, North Carolina. It serves grades 6-8, has approximately 350 students.[16][17][18]

High Schools

Other Schools

Mountain Youth Center

References

External links


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