EDUCATION Blue Ridge Community College apprenticeship program
Excellent Schools for All Ages Whether you’re looking into schools for your children or are thinking of going back to school yourself, Henderson County and the surrounding area offer a variety of educational opportunities.
PRESCHOOLS Parents with small children will find numerous choices when it comes to child care and preschools. Many churches offer weekday programs and private and publicly funded child care centers operate throughout the county. For more information and a current list of child care options in Henderson Count y, contact Mountain Child Care Connections at SWCDCINC.org/Quality-Childcare, or call the toll-free hotline at 87 7-752-5955 or v isit the NC 122
Division of Child Development and Early Education at NCChildcare. NCDHHS.gov. HENDERSON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS 828-697-4733 HCPSNC.org
For children five years of age to 18, Henderson County Public Schools has 23 schools—four high, four middle, 13 elementary, the Henderson County Career Academy and the Henderson County Early College. All are accredited Cognia.
The Career Academy and the Early College (together, the Innovative High Schools) are housed in the Molly A. Parkhill Building on the Blue Ridge Community College campus. The Career Academy offers high school students pursuing direct, specific career goals with Art, Business & Finance, Culinary, Fire Fighting and Mechatronics academies plus access to all the technical career pathways through BRCC. The Early College gives many first-generation college students the opportunity to complete high school and college continued on page 124 Hendersonville Magazine 2021–2022
