Asheville School is a small, private boarding school in Asheville, North Carolina. Founded in 1900, it currently has around 260 students in grades nine through twelve. The school's current headmaster is Archibald R. Montgomery IV. Asheville School allows both boarding and day students, and hosts its boarders in three dormitories: one male, one female, and one co-ed.
Asheville School was founded by educators Newton Anderson and Charles Mitchell in...
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Asheville School is a small, private boarding school in Asheville, North Carolina. Founded in 1900, it currently has around 260 students in grades nine through twelve. The school's current headmaster is Archibald R. Montgomery IV. Asheville School allows both boarding and day students, and hosts its boarders in three dormitories: one male, one female, and one co-ed.
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" . 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...
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