Asheville School
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Asheville School | |
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Address | |
360 Asheville School Road 28806 United States | |
Coordinates | 35°33′43″N 82°37′21″W / 35.56194°N 82.62250°W |
Asheville School | |
Location | Roughly bounded by Patton Ave., Norfolk Southern rail line, Interstate 40, Sand Hill Rd., and Malvern Hills subdivision, Asheville, North Carolina |
Built | 1900 |
Architect | Beadle, Chauncey, et al |
Architectural style | Tudor Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 96000614[1] |
Added to NRHP | June 3, 1996 |
Information | |
Type | Private, Boarding |
Established | 1900 |
CEEB code | 340120 |
Head of school | Anthony H. Sgro |
Faculty | 65.8[2] |
Enrollment | 295 (2019[2]) |
Average class size | 14 students |
Student to teacher ratio | 5:1 |
Campus size | 300 acres (120 ha) |
Campus type | Suburban |
Color(s) | Blue and white |
Athletics | NCISAA |
Tuition | Boarding Students: $71,930[3] Day Students: $42,535 |
Website | www |
Asheville School is a private, coeducational,
History
Asheville School was founded in 1900 by Charles Andrews Mitchell and Newton Mitchell Anderson. Previously, the pair founded the University School in Cleveland, Ohio in 1890. Fifty-three male boarding students from grades five through twelve called "forms" were enrolled in the school's first year.
Academics
Asheville School's academic course of study stresses a core curriculum of the humanities, sciences, mathematics, foreign language, and the arts.
Asheville School has a humanities program structured in a series of four year-long courses: Ancient Studies, World Studies, European Studies, and American Studies. The academic program focuses heavily on writing and ends with a final research project, the Senior Demonstration. The project requires seniors to produce one ten-page paper on a topic of their choosing and complete an oral defense for twenty minutes.[citation needed]
Mountaineering
Asheville School has a mountaineering program where students can participate in backpacking, rock climbing,
Community life
The Asheville School student body is made up of approximately 80% boarding students and 20% day students. The school has students from twenty-six states and thirteen countries. Roughly a quarter of the students receive need-based financial aid. The school has about the same number of males and females.
Boarding students live in one of three dormitories: Lawrence Hall, Anderson Hall, and Kehaya House.
The school community gathers several times a week for chapel services and convocations. Sixth formers are required to deliver a ten-minute talk alongside another student, an event that (along with the Senior Demonstration) represents the capstone of a student's career at Asheville School.
The community service requirement–one that is common among boarding schools–differs at Asheville in that students complete 40 hours of service for one organization and submit an essay about that experience to the headmaster.[5]
Traditions
The football rival of Asheville School (the Blues) is Christ School (the Greenies). At Asheville School, the rivalry game is preceded by a week of festivities that culminates in a pep rally the evening before the Blues take the field. The Asheville School/Christ School rivalry represents North Carolina's longest-running high school athletic rivalry.[6]
Notable alumni
Notable
- Kent H. Dixon - author, scholar, translator[8]
- Pete Dye – golf course designer
- United States Ambassador to Luxembourgfrom 1999 to 2001
- H. C. Robbins Landon – musicologist, journalist, historian and broadcaster
- Samuel Curtis Johnson, Jr. – businessman; fourth generation of his family to lead S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
- Charles P. Ries – former U.S. diplomat
- media moguland philanthropist
- theologian
- Night Film, and Neverworld Wake
- chairman of the board of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
- Stephen A. Jarislowsky – Canadian business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
- James Arthur "Art" Pope – North Carolina businessman, philanthropist, attorney and former government official
- Roy Sangwoo Kim – singer-songwriter and radio presenter
- José Antonio González Anaya – economist who served as the minister of finance and public credit of Mexico
- Roberts Blossom – theatre, film and television character actor, and poet
- Scandal
- Perla Haney-Jardine – actress
- hiker
- cleft lip and palatesurgeries
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ a b "Private School Universe Survey". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved January 10, 2018.
- ^ "Tuition & Financial Aid - Asheville School".
- ^ "The Most Beautiful Private High School in Every State in America". Architectural Digest. March 29, 2018.
- ^ a b Staff Writers (May 7, 2015). "The 50 Best Boarding Schools in the U.S." TheBestSchools.org.
- ^ "Asheville School - Asheville School News". www.ashevilleschool.org.
- ^ "Notable Alumni - Asheville School". www.ashevilleschool.org.
- Newspapers.com.