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Every year, second graders at Fairview Elementary learn about animal life cycles with an egg-citing hands-on activity. The school receives chicken eggs that are then placed in an i...

A.C. Reynolds Middle School celebrated Christmas in June. Sixth graders in Rebecca Whittier’s science class learned about the process of selecting the National Christmas tree for W...

This year the advanced chorus from Charles T. Koontz Intermediate School delighted judges at the Carowinds Festival of Music. Chorus instructor Christy Woppman said the group was i...

Buncombe County Schools Associate Superintendent Susanne Swanger announces she will retire from BCS effective August 1, 2022. Superintendent Dr. Tony Baldwin will retire from BCS e...

Carrying on a tradition at BCS, after a short hiatus due to COVID, the Senior Walks returned this year for the class of 2022. Seniors from across BCS schools walked the halls of th...

Each year, BCS holds a multi-day orientation for its licensed staff. Please review the information below, including the participant requirements, to determine which day(s) you nee...

Buncombe County Schools Virtual Academy (BCSVA) donated supplies to Hearts with Hands, a local charity dedicated to disaster relief. Students and families from BCSVA came together ...

The week of March 7 we celebrate National School Social Worker Week in Buncombe County Schools (BCS). Across the entire district, we have amazing social workers that pour their hea...

Mr. Taylor Baldwin, Career and Technical Education (CTE) director at Buncombe County Schools, has been nominated as the NC finalist for the FCCLA National School Administrator of t...

A new student organization is coming to Charles D. Owen High school (OHS) next school year. Link Crew is composed of student leaders from grades 10-12, and it helps incoming freshm...

Joe P. Eblen Intermediate School (JPEIS) fifth-graders were ready to ace their science end-of-grade tests after participating in an innovative science festival last week.For the sc...

Students at North Windy Ridge Intermediate (NWRI) had a lively career fair on Friday, May 27. Local community members spread out across classrooms and outside to show students a gl...

Buncombe County Schools board member for the Roberson district, Amy Churchill, visited Community High School with two special guests in tow - pig lungs! Ms. Churchill, a respirator...

As a Leader in Me school, William W. Estes Elementary always looks for exciting new ways to help students develop strategies for lifelong success.As the school year wrapped up, Aca...

Buncombe County Virtual Academy (BCSVA) enjoyed an in-person field trip to Emerald Village, a gem-mining site and mining museum located in Little Switzerland, NC. The students had ...

Ms. Nanaka Okamura, the Japanese Outreach Initiative Coordinator for the Department of World Languages at Western Carolina University (WCU), paid a visit to Johnston Elementary (JE...

At Pisgah Elementary School, teachers and volunteers put on a "STEAMR" (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics, and Reading) Day to excite the kids with hands-on, educa...

A.C. Reynolds High School (ACRHS) Key Club service project landed a hole in one for making a difference with a unique student-led food drive. Key Club is known for making the world...

A popular tradition made a grand return to Fairview Elementary (FES). The FES Dad’s Club (a dad-run organization aimed at helping with projects around FES and bringing fathers clos...

The Breakfast Rotary Club of Asheville generously donated over $4,000 of supplies to the Family Resource Center (FRC) today – helping them fulfill their mission to bring hope to st...