Who We Are
Mission: To prepare students for successful lifelong learning, social responsibility, environmental stewardship, and service.
Evergreen Community Charter School is a public, tuition-free school serving Buncombe County area children in kindergarten through eighth grade. This learning community is committed to the pursuit of excellence in the holistic education of mind, body, and spirit.
The school envisions nurturing a passion for learning that lasts a lifetime by challenging students to discover their individual gifts, to honor their inner worth, to strive for excellence, to pursue respectful and ethical relationships with themselves and others, and to find their own path of service.
What We Do
Evergreen Community Charter School offers an academically challenging, developmentally appropriate, experiential, holistic, child-centered education to all young people. Evergreen is guided by EL Education practices where learning is active, challenging, meaningful, public, and collaborative. Programs and initiatives include:
- Academic Programming: Evergreen promotes academic excellence, offering programs in mathematics, social studies, science, and language arts.
- Enrichment Classes: Evergreen offers classes and activities in the classroom, outdoors, and community, including Adventure Physical Education, Technology, Environmental Education, Library, Arts, Music, Health Education, and interest-based electives.
- Exceptional Children and Academic Support: These programs provide instruction through differentiation in the classroom or small group pull-out prescribed by a student’s Individualized Education Plan or Academic Support Plan.
- Academically or Intellectually Gifted Program: These services are provided in the regular classroom through differentiation and student/adult partnerships with the AIG Coordinator, another teacher, or a community member.
- Environmental Stewardship: Evergreen provides environmental and sustainability education across the curriculum and promotes improved health and wellness, and reduced environmental impact.
- Counseling and Support: These services include individual and group counseling, personal development classes on social and emotional life skills and healthy decision-making, and collaboration with teachers and parents.
