Clay County, North Carolina
A Small Town With A Whole Lot Of Charm
Where Majestic Mountains, Breathtaking Views
Pristine Water and Friendly Small Town Living
Are Simply A Way Of Life Here
And Whether You’re A Part Of A Family Who’ve Called Who’ve Called This Place Home For Generations
Or You’ve Recently Moved Here
One Thing Is For Sure We Are All Passionate About Something At The Heart Of Our County
And That Is Our Amazing Schools
The Mission Is For All Of Our Students To Graduate On Time
For All Of Our Students To Graduate On Time With The Skills They Need And A Plan For What’s Next
the skills they need and
plan for what's next of their choice now
what we want to do what they want to do cuz that's when
they get excited as when they can focus on what they went
I've
been wanting to go to Princeton since I was a freshman
and I got it and I'm really excited about that
and I think a lot of that is due
to the teachers and the support system here to counselors
I had people write amazing recommendation
letters for me and it really
guided me through the process of how to
get how to get there you know even
though I would work here if this was the oldest
building on campus I do have the Privileges
of working in the newest facility on campus
it is amazing we have
space to grow its unique
everything is contained here we have our own cafeteria
we have our own gym the
safety is unparalleled because we are in a
single facility that has
only designated entry point
my most favorite thing about
it wasn't all of our kids enter through this one door and
so I think that that is great because
I can stand at the door and greet every soon as I walk in the door
and I know who they are and so because we split
into two smaller schools we have about 250-260
kids and we know it
and tell each morning have an opportunity
to greet them and check in with them every morning is one of my favorite
things about Hazel Elementary we
were unique situation where our kids were
adopted coming from different countries
different backgrounds and experiences
but what we look back on now
and are so grateful for is that we had a faculty
or staff that went out of their way to make sure that
our students were made to feel like they were just part
of the family they were just part of the community and from
the beginning our Park
is it only felt like this was their school their
place to be in law
so at a larger School your classes
are broken down into certain medium so you
might not get to take
in class or you might not get to take a clay class
where is it Hayesville we cover all kinds
of different mediums in the class
at the end of each semester
I have an arch
that's open to the public where we display all
the students individual art and we have
all kinds of local artists and teachers from
Young Harris college the folks School
everyone comes out to celebrate the wonderful
art that students create your ideas for high school
we have gear up which is
a great stem Grant initiatives
that we've been working on to really push them into
our schools global
yes it is we have working here on our campus as well
we have teachers that they're going to Zimbabwe
we have teachers going to Australia so
we are Global even though we we sit here
in Hayesville North Carolina the fifth school
that I've been an administrator at
which is
the connection between the school and the
parents and the community has come together here
at the
high school
is that the our school partners with the low
Community College and so that the students
have an opportunity they can go to Early
College there on the community college
campus or they can take classes remotely
and work towards their associate's degree so
my daughter decided to do that and got her
associate Sam and now has transition to
Loyola in New Orleans and has
been able to transfer those credits to that college
program on our campus right now we
have for Jim's we also have
access to our rec department we have
multiple facilities for practice for baseball football
soccer which that enables
to have easier practice times here
at Clay County schools be
level
we're very proud of that I should have something here forever
we have success in most all of those Sports
we have highly qualified coaches coach any
sports we're very proud of their progress
and the way they maintain the tradition to Hayesville High School
our
motto for our district all students learning
at high levels that was here when I got here and
I thought it was the best motto we could ever have. I told
everybody I wouldn't change that for anything because each
individual student at whatever they
used to do we want them to learn in high levels everyday
what we've got here in Clay
County is something special these are exciting
times for our schools for the future is bright
and Endless Possibilities await