Andrews High School (North Carolina)
Andrews High School (AHS) in Andrews, North Carolina serves grades 9–12 and is one of only three high schools in the Cherokee County Schools System. As of 2007 it had a full-time teaching staff of 27 teachers giving an average of 11 students per teacher. In 2023-24 enrollment was 221. The school's capacity is 530. The current building is a one-story, three building campus, built in 1962, after the original three-story campus was burned down months earlier. A May 2020 vote by the Cherokee County Board of Education was to consolidate Andrews, Murphy, and Hiwassee Dam High Schools, and a grant of $50 million was given to the school system in September 2022, though the grant was returned as a result of another vote of this time, the new members of the Cherokee County Board of Education.
Andrews High School (North Carolina)
Aerial view of Andrews High School
After the original 1914 building burned down in February of 1962, a new school was quickly built and opened in 1963. Though the school has gone through many cosmetic changes, the sign remains the same.
Miss Jean Christy's name is placed on this sign next to the AHS brick sign.
Andrews is a town in Cherokee County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,667 at the 2020 census.
Main Street
Postcard of main street in 1950s
Former First Baptist Church
District Memorial Hospital on Whitaker Lane was demolished in 2008. Photo c. 1979.
