Who We Are
Mission: To create a safe, respectful environment that prioritizes 21st-century skills, collaboration, and meeting diverse student needs.
Charles T. Koontz Intermediate School is a public school in the Buncombe County Schools system serving fifth and sixth grade students who live in the Roberson school district. A main goal of this state-of-the-art technology school is to prepare students through an integrated approach of weaving global skills, leadership and character traits, individual goals and accountability, problem-solving, and life skills within the common core and essential standards, in order to maximize the level of overall achievement in every student. As a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) school, Koontz Intermediate seeks to create a healthy environment that supports education through teacher, student, and staff performance.
Koontz Intermediate is a partner in the Asheville Buncombe Middle Grades Network, which utilizes a collective impact strategy that brings together Asheville City Schools, Buncombe County Schools, and community partners around a shared vision of creating success-ready 9th-graders and improving graduation rates.
What We Do
Koontz Intermediate offers a curriculum for fifth and sixth grades that includes reading, writing, mathematics, social studies, science, art/music, and health/physical education. Instructional supports include the exceptional children’s program for students with disabilities, English as a second language program for students whose primary language is other than English, and a school counseling program. Additional opportunities for students include Band, Chorus, Strings Orchestra, Drama, and Battle of the Books. Koontz Intermediate has adopted throughout all school initiatives the Leader in Me program, which instills in students life skills and lessons to become good leaders.
