January 26, 2024
Students at Community High School walked the halls to cheers from their peers as they celebrated their upcoming mid-year graduation. Graduating students from Community High tradi...
January 26, 2024
Congratulations to our 2025 Teachers of The Year! Each year, schools select an educator from their ranks as their “Teacher of the Year” (TOTY). These teachers then go on to compe...
January 26, 2024
A local falconer captivated a young audience at North Buncombe Elementary School (NBES) with a talon-ted presentation. First graders are learning about the different adaptations...
January 25, 2024
Buncombe County Schools (BCS) employs thousands of extraordinary staff across the district. BCS takes pride in recruiting the best in order to inspire, educate, encourage, and ele...
January 24, 2024
In June of 2023, the state legislature revised the law governing elections in BCS. Instead of six residency districts (based on the six high school attendance zones) and one at-la...
January 24, 2024
Junior star explorers from Oakley Elementary got to share a big project at the Asheville Museum of Science (AMOS) - hand-made space-themed board games! Students created the games...
January 21, 2024
Students at Erwin High had the best kind of Food War - a Mac and Cheese cookoff! Students in Lacy Davis’s Food and Nutrition I class concocted personalized recipes of cheesy pasta...
January 19, 2024
A world of discovery, learning, and curiosity immerses biology students at Martin L. Nesbitt Jr. Discovery Academy (NDA). Teacher Nicole Washburn is consistently crafting hands-...
January 19, 2024
As we begin thinking about the second semester, some students find themselves one or two credits short of having enough to graduate on time or move to the next grade level with th...
January 17, 2024
Hello, BCS Seniors! Congratulations on all of your accomplishments! As you continue on your educational journey, Buncombe County Schools Foundation is here to help and support yo...
January 17, 2024
Amidst the towering trees and whispers of the wilderness, a group of young adventurers embarked on a survival field trip that would reveal a few of nature’s secrets.
W.D. Will...
January 12, 2024
In the early morning hours of January 11, 2024, students, staff, cameras and production crew filled the gymnasium of Community High School (CHS). This special event was not for a ...
January 12, 2024
Hello, BCS Staff and Families:
Welcome to a new year! Here’s a look at the BCS Board Briefing for January 11, 2024. Here is a link to the full broadcast on YouTube. Photos are...
January 11, 2024
Buncombe County Schools (BCS) is hosting a Support Staff Job Fair on Tuesday, January 23, 2024 from 1-3pm in the Nesbitt cafeteria at BCS Central Office (175 Bingham Road -...
January 10, 2024
A group of hometown heroes is igniting a love for reading at W.W. Estes Elementary School (WWEES) as they join forces to embark on literacy adventures beyond the realms of emergen...
January 8, 2024
Second graders at Hominy Valley Elementary were over the clouds with excitement as Air Force scientists breezed through hands-on weather experiments. These real world professional...
January 5, 2024
BCS, Buncombe County, and the State of North Carolina are collaborating to set high schoolers on the path to fill the community’s early childhood education needs. During a specia...
January 4, 2024
Fifth grade students at Oakley elementary got to work with a local artist, Ginger Huebner, to create self-portrait style art pieces based on the work of African American artist Ro...
January 4, 2024
First LEGO Robotics League is about more than just playing with this favorite childhood toy; it also provides building blocks for student learning and success. When students parti...
January 3, 2024
Two unusual guests slithered and crawled their way into Community High School (CHS). The Western North Carolina Nature Center gave students and staff a lively presentation about t...