Nantahala School is a small K–12 school in
Topton, North Carolina
Topton is an unincorporated community in Cherokee County, North Carolina, United States. Topton is located on U.S. Route 19, U.S. Route 74, and U.S. Route 129, east-northeast of Andrews. Topton has a post office
A post office is a public f ...
. It is located in a remote part of
Macon County amidst the
Nantahala National Forest
The Nantahala National Forest ( /ˌnæntəˈheɪlə/), is the largest of the four national forests in North Carolina, lying in the mountains and valleys of western North Carolina. The Nantahala is the second wettest region in the country, after the ...
. The school has about 100 students. It is one of the state's few remaining K–12 schools. The school is located at 213 Winding Stairs Road. It has an 11 percent minority enrollment and 61 percent of students are economically disadvantaged. The school has volleyball, cross country, basketball, and golf teams. Alumni include
Eric Rudolph
Eric Robert Rudolph (born September 19, 1966), also known as the Olympic Park Bomber, is an American domestic terrorist convicted for a series of bombings across the southern United States between 1996 and 1998, which killed two people and injur ...
who dropped out of the school.
The school is part of the
North Carolina High School Athletic Association and its teams compete as the Nantahala Hawks.
See also
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List of high schools in North Carolina
This is a list of high schools in the state of North Carolina.
Any school that is not under a title " Charter schools" or "Private schools" is a public school.
Alamance County
* Eastern Alamance High School, Mebane
* Western Alamance Hi ...
References
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Schools in Macon County, North Carolina