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sporting the colors orange and black with an eagle for its mascot. The school's history fondly holds many extra-curricular and sports championship's from Band(earning one class an invitation to the Macy's
Thanksgiving Day Parade) to Baseball, Basketball and Football. The school was consolidated with Cullowhee High School, Cullowhee, NC beginning with the Fall 1988, school year, and remains at its same intersection of Hwy 107 and Website Road, as Smoky Mountain High School. In the early 1990s, Coach Charles "Babe" Howell and several other Sylva residents incorporated the non-profit Jackson County Athletic Hall of Fame, to enshrine the students who showed outstanding athletic achievement by nomination and ultimately chosen by school records and a panel of board members.
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Elementary School was condemned and had to be gutted and renovated in 1948. In the 1950s, the last one and two teacher schools and wooden graded schools closed and Log Cabin
Associated Consolidated Elementary School (Dillsboro, 1950) (consolidated Wilmont, Dicks Creek, and Barkers Creek Schools), Scotts Creek School (Sylva, 1951) (Consolidated Willets, Balsam, Addie, and Beta Schools), and Canada Consolidated School (Little Canada, 1951) (Consolidated Charleys Creek, Wolf Mountain, Rock Bridge, and Tanasee Gap Schools), replaced them. At this time several older county schools got facelifts, renovations, and additions, and the relatively new Tuckaseigee and Balsam Schools closed.
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Consolidated was closed in 1965 in compliance with the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In 1973 Fairview Elementary School opened behind Sylva-Webster High School in Sylva, consolidating Sylva Elementary School (1929/1948), Webster Elementary School (1936), and Savannah Elementary School (1940/1955). In 1975, Blue Ridge School opened in Cashiers, consolidating Glenville Elementary School (1926), Glenville High School (1926/1951), and Cashiers Elementary School (1938/1951).
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Southwestern Community College Campus in Webster on NC 116, and in 2010 they received their own building. At about the same time, Blue Ridge School, which opened in 1975, divided into two parts, each with its own principal. Kindergarten through 6th Grade is now considered Blue Ridge Elementary School, and 7th through 12th grade is now considered Blue Ridge Virtual Early College High School.
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Webster Campus from 1960 and the new school was Smoky Mountain High School. A new two-story building was added to the Smoky Mountain High School campus the following year, to alleviate overcrowding. The Camp Laboratory School in Cullowhee remained active as a K-8 School for another six years until the new Cullowhee Valley School came online in 1994.
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Alternatives, also known as The HUB, is an alternative school in Jackson County, North Carolina for grades K-12 which deals with students who are disabled or have social/behavioral issues in the other county schools. It opened in the old Scotts Creek School, built in 1951, in 2002 after
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Elementary and high schools. The largest high school was in Sylva, and it was built for $ 65,000 in 1924. Cullowhee School was built in 1923, followed by Sylva High School (1924), Colored Consolidated
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September 2019, more than thirty years after the last graduating class at Sylva-Webster, the first annual Sylva-Webster Fest was held at Bridge Park in Sylva. This event culminated when the older classes formed a committee regarding the interest in having a class-wide reunion. From there, bloomed
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Sylva-Webster High School, is a former high school that served as the main high school for the majority of grades 9–12, through the graduating classes of 1960–1988. Located in
Jackson County, NC, at the intersection of Hwy 107 and Webster Road, Sylva-Webster High student body were the Golden Eagles,
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Laboratory School. The School provides education to Grade 8 for Cullowhee and the communities of Little Canada, East LaPorte, Forest Hills, Tuckasegee, and Caney Fork. with around 690 students and 70 teachers. During the construction of the school two
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Fairview Elementary School is a public kindergarten to Grade 8 school in Sylva which also serves the towns of Dillsboro, Webster, and Savannah. It opened in 1973 when the smaller Sylva, Webster, and Savannah elementary schools were merged. Classes are from kindergarten through Grade 8 and the school
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Smokey Mountain Elementary School has around 450 students and 35 teachers and opened in 1980 on the merger of Log Cabin Association Consolidated Elementary School and Qualla Elementary School. Students in kindergarten through Grade 8 draw from the communities of Indian Hills, Barkers Creek, Qualla,
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In 1960, Sylva-Webster High School opened at what is now the Smoky Mountain High School campus, Colored Consolidated School got a new building, and Camp Laboratory School opened in 1964. At this time Sylva High School, Webster High School, McKee Training School, and Johns Creek School closed. Not
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The first school in the Jackson County area opened in 1830 near Cullowhee. A small, one-roomed structure, it set in place the basic formula for all schools in the area for the next 56 years. Small one-roomed schools dotted the landscape until the first high school opened in 1886 in Hamburgh (now
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Jackson County Early College is a public secondary school located in Sylva, North Carolina. It opened as an alternative to Smoky Mountain High School in 2008 for those students willing to put in extra work to also earn a community college 2-year degree along with their high school diploma.
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