Asheville School

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Asheville School
Established 1900
School type Private, Boarding
Religious affiliation none
Head of school Archibald R. Montgomery IV
Location Asheville, NC, USA
Campus Suburban, 300 acres
Average class size 12 students
Student:teacher
ratio		 7:1
Athletics 15 sports
Color(s) Blue and White
Homepage www.ashevilleschool.org

Asheville School is a small, private boarding school in Asheville, North Carolina. Founded in 1900, it currently has around 240 students in grades nine through twelve. The school's current headmaster is Archibald Montgomery. Asheville School allows both boarding and day students, and hosts its boarders in three dormitories, segregated by gender on each hall.

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[edit] History

Asheville School was founded by educators Newton Anderson and Charles Mitchell in 1900. The two men had a vision to "establish a school where boys could prepare for college or for the business world; where the body, through organized athletics, would be trained as well as the brain; and where boys could learn constructive work with their hands as well as their heads" [1]. Initially the school educated students in grades five through twelve, called "forms" following the British system, but by 1964 the school moved entirely to being a high school.

As of 2005, Asheville School has begun to move forward into a new era of education by initiating several projects ranging from a new athletic facility, a planned science and art building, and eventually the restoration and modernization of the dorms.

[edit] Afternoon Activities

Asheville School's football team, the Blues, in 1919.
Asheville School's football team, the Blues, in 1919.

All students must participate in an "afternoon activity" after the academic day ends. Each student can pick one for each season. All third formers and new fourth formers are required to participate in one team sport during the course of their first year. Each student can participate in art, drama, music, life fitness, equestrian, mountaineering, or an interscholastic sport (which are listed below).

In 2006, Asheville began offering Lacrosse as a club sport in the spring.

The traditional football rival of Asheville School is Christ School.

[edit] Discipline

The school has a Conduct Council, where three alternate prefects and two alternating faculty convene with the faculty conduct chair in order to determine a recommendation of punishment for students who have committed a level one offense or various level two and/or three offenses.

There is also an Honor Council that hears the cases of students who have broken the honor code. This body is meant to be more constructive than disciplinary, and the members discuss the offenses of the students with them in order to achieve a sort of reconciliation between the student and the school.

Many disciplinary cases involve both conduct and honor offenses.

Recently, the largest disciplinary action in several decades was taken by the school's administration. Over 25 drug tests were administered and 18 students left the school in connection to drug use.

[edit] Notable alumni

Notable alumni of Asheville School include:

[edit] External links

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