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Quality Matters...

from Hendersonville Magazine 2023-2024

from Hendersonville Magazine 2023-2024, page 112

Excellent Schools for All Ages

Hendersonville Pediatrics has been providing quality, state of the art, compassionate healthcare to the children of Western North Carolina for more than 70 years. We currently accept new patients and are in-network with all major insurance providers and accept self-pay patients. Our physicians and staff offer newborn care, well visit appointments, sick visits, sports physicals, immunization updates, and asthma, ADHD and behavioral management.

Meet The Doctors:

With two offices in Brevard and Hendersonville, appointments are available 364 days a year including evenings, weekends and holidays for sick patients. Appointment availability may vary depending on demand, but the physicians and staff are committed to providing continual access to care for their patients.

Additionally, Hendersonville Pediatrics has on-site behavioral health providers offering behavioral health screenings and treatment services for patients ages birth to 18 years old. Common concerns include temper tantrums, oppositional behavior, toileting or bed wetting difficulties, picky eating, family or school conflicts, anxiety, depression and many more.

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 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 coursework through BRCC in five years and graduate with both a high school diploma and an associate’s degree.

Henderson County Public Schools continues to be one of the highest performing school districts in the state, regularly ranking top in the state for overall proficiency and high 4-year cohort graduation rates, which annually exceed the average North Carolina graduation rate.

The system has a total of 168 National Board Certified Teachers. HCPS is named a “Schools to Watch® District” by the National Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform, and 11 schools (eight elementary, two middle and one high) implement Franklin Covey’s The Leader in Me school-wide model.

Public Charter Schools

Henderson County also has three public, tuition-free charter schools – FernLeaf Community Charter School in Fletcher, Flat Rock Classical Academy in Flat Rock and The

Fernleaf Community Charter School

FernLeaf Community Charter School offers an elementary through high school experience like no other, enriching lives through community, high quality academics and handson learning. This K-12 school seeks to foster a rich learning environment that engages students and helps them develop into compassionate, thoughtful human beings as they grow and achieve academically. Their new Wilderness Campus opens Fall of 2023. For more information, call 828-684-3645 or visit FernLeafCCS.org.

FLAT ROCK CLASSICAL ACADEMY (Opening Fall 2024)

Flat Rock Classical Academy will develop students in mind and character through a rigorous, classical, content-rich transparent curriculum that emphasizes academic fundamentals, virtuous living and civic responsibility. The Academy will begin as a K-4 school, adding grades each year through grade 12. For more information, visitFlatRockClassicalAcademy.org.

Mountain Community School

The Mountain Community School’s mission is to honor individuality and diversity, nurture respect for self and others and foster a lifelong love of learning. The Mountain Community School is a charter school that offers a rigorous curricular experience based on an expeditionary model of learning in grades K-8. For more information, call 828-696-8480 or visit TheMountainCommunitySchool.com.

Private Schools

In addition to public schools, Henderson County has five private schools.

Captain Gilmer Christian School And Fletcher Academy

Captain Gilmer Christian School in Fletcher offers excellence in academics while maintaining strong Biblical roots. CGCS is a Pre-K through 8th grade campus that serves as the primary and middle school for Fletcher Academy. The Academy provides a general college preparatory work/study program for day students and boarding students in grades 9 to 12. Both schools are Seventh-day Adventist. For more information, call Captain

Gilmer Christian School at 828-6848221 or visit CaptainGilmer.org, or call Fletcher Academy at 828-2096800 or visit FletcherAcademy.org.

Imago Dei Classical Academy

Imago Dei Classical Academy is a classical Christian school in Mills River that seeks to glorify God by teaching students, parents and staff to think clearly, listen with discernment and understanding, reason persuasively and articulate precisely. For more information, call 828-513-4966 or visit IDCANC.org.

Immaculata Catholic School

Immaculata Catholic School in Hendersonville provides academic and religious instruction for preschool through 8th grade, integrating Roman Catholic tradition into a comprehensive instructional program. For more information, call 828-693-3277 or visit IMMAC.org.

Veritas Christian Academy

Veritas Christian Academy in Fletcher is an independent, co-educational, PreK-12, college preparatory school with an educational culture built on the classical Trivium and Christianity. Veritas enters its 25th year and has been newly accredited by the Association of Classical Christian Schools. Veritas’ academic program is enhanced by a common and fine arts program, a center for nature studies, an athletics department and an assortment of electives and extracurricular activities. For more information, call 828-681-0546 or visit VeritasNC.org.

Wild Oak Independent School

Wild Oak Independent School is a unique school community intentionally designed to engage Preschool through 6th graders in a relationship with learning that will support their curiosity, creativity, growth and development. In addition, Wild Oak offers low student-teacher ratios in multi-age classrooms and an integrated, realworld, hands-on curriculum. For more information, call 828-620-1091 or visit WildOakSchool.org.

Homeschooling

Homeschooling is also an option for North Carolina parents and children. Resources include:

• Classical Scholars in Mills River which supports homeschooling parents with a unique classroom environment and opportunities to foster leadership: ClassicalScholarsHomeschool.com

• Henderson County Homeschool Association: Homeschool-Life. com/NC/HCHA

• NC Department of Administration: NCAdmin.NC.gov/Citizens/HomeSchool-Information

• North Carolinians for Home Education: NCHE.com

Higher Education

Blue Ridge Community College

828-694-1700

BlueRidge.edu

Blue Ridge Community College is a two-year post-secondary institution that prepares students of all ages for success in today’s workforce or at four-year colleges and universities. With campuses in Henderson and Transylvania Counties, the college offers more than 200 degrees, diplomas and certificates in 30 areas of study; more than 200 online courses; veterans services; support for small businesses; apprenticeships; job placement services through NCWorks; one of the largest continuing education programs in the state; and fasttracked job training.

Blue Ridge also breaks down financial barriers to higher education through its Educational Foundation which continued on next page offers more than $400,000 in scholarship opportunities each year. Graduates are also eligible to transfer credits and continue their education at any of North Carolina’s 18 public colleges and universities. The College’s faculty craft programs that provide real-life practice, meet the needs of area employers and lead to well-paying careers. Through its comprehensive program and service options, Blue Ridge Community College offers an elevated higher education experience that helps students achieve their professional goals while strengthening the community.

Fruitland Baptist Bible College

828-685-8886

Fruitland.edu

Established in 1946, the purpose of Fruitland Baptist Bible College’s educational programs is to equip the next generation of Christian leaders to become thinkers who think with a Biblical worldview and serve with a compassionate heart just as Christ served others. FBBC offers an Associate Degree in Religion/ Christian Ministries. The College also partners with The College at Southeastern to offer an accredited Bachelor of Arts degree. FBBC is a member of the International Association of Baptist Colleges and Universities and Fruitland is a ministry of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina.

Wingate University Hendersonville

828-697-0105

Wingate.edu/Academics/Hendersonville

Wingate University’s Hendersonville campus offers a fully accredited Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm D) program and Masters of Physician Assistant (PA) studies. Both programs emphasize small classes, a student-centered environment, service to the community and reallife experiences in problem-solving and application of skills.

Wingate University School of Pharmacy graduates engage in more than 2,150 hours of pharmacy practice experience in hospitals, community pharmacies and medical clinics.

The PA Studies program partners with local hospitals and healthcare providers to prepare well-educated, ethical and skilled physician assistants.

Wingate University’s healtheducation facility located next to Pardee UNC Health Care is a joint venture of Wingate, Henderson County, the City of Hendersonville, Blue Ridge Community College and UNC Health Pardee.

University Of North Carolina Asheville

828-251-6600

UNCA.edu

As North Carolina’s premier public liberal arts and sciences university –and one of the top-10 in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report – UNC Asheville prides itself on being an exceptionally close-knit learning community engaged in bold exploration, courageous creativity and innovative thinking. The focus on developing critical thinking and problem-solving skills is part of a commitment to a way of learning that leads to discovery of real-world solutions to pressing local and global issues, whatever the chosen major and field of study of students.

Award-winning faculty, a nationally acclaimed undergraduate research program and small class sizes foster connections between curiosity and critical thinking, courage and challenge, imagination and impact, opportunity and responsibility.

Learning at UNCA extends well beyond classroom walls, focusing on undergraduate studies to prepare the next generation of leaders, entrepreneurs and professionals through faculty-mentored research projects, career-related internships, study-abroad experiences and service projects that make an impact at home and around the world.

UNC Asheville is home to 3,000 undergraduate students with more than 65 academic offerings, 16 NCAA Division I athletic teams and an award-winning, internationally known Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.