Editing Statesville, North Carolina (section)

==Education==
The city is part of the Iredell–Statesville School District. Schools within the city limits include East Iredell Elementary, N.B. Mills Elementary, Oakwood Middle School, Pressly Elementary, and Statesville High School. Schools serving Statesville residents but located outside the city limits include Cloverleaf Elementary School, East Iredell Middle School, and Third Creek Elementary School.<ref name="Schools">{{Cite web| url=https://www.issnc.org/schools-programs/our-schools| title=Schools| publisher=Iredell–Statesville School District| access-date=April 9, 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229185531/https://www.issnc.org/schools-programs/our-schools| archive-date=December 29, 2019| url-status=live}}</ref>

Wayside Elementary School was an elementary school located off Salisbury Road in eastern Statesville. The current school building opened in 1941 and closed in 2002 when Wayside School and Alan D. Rutherford School merged to form Third Creek Elementary. The former Wayside building is currently home to the UAW 3520 headquarters, while the former Alan D. Rutherford site is home to the Iredell-Statesville Schools Administrative Annex, now known as the Alan D. Rutherford Education Building.

[[Statesville Christian School]] is a non-denominational K4–12 private school serving the greater Statesville area.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.statesvillechristian.org/editoruploads/files/Admissions/School_Profile_Sept_2018_1_16_19.pdf|title=Statesville Christian School|website=statesvillechristian.org|access-date=December 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212011635/http://www.statesvillechristian.org/editoruploads/files/Admissions/School_Profile_Sept_2018_1_16_19.pdf|archive-date=February 12, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Mitchell Community College]], founded as a Presbyterian women's college in 1852, is now a public [[community college]]. In the 2008–2009 academic year, it became the first community college in the United States to be accepted into [[NASA]]'s University Student Launch Initiative competition.<ref>{{cite book|author=Powell, William S.|title=Higher Education in North Carolina|publisher=Raleigh: State Department of Archives and History|year=1970|url=https://uncpress.org/book/9780865260801/higher-education-in-north-carolina/|access-date=2019-12-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229183108/https://uncpress.org/book/9780865260801/higher-education-in-north-carolina/|archive-date=2019-12-29|url-status=live}}</ref>