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==Education== [[File:Andrews_Elementary_School_in_Andrews,_North_Carolina,_and_Cherokee_County_04.jpg|thumb|Andrews Elementary School]] The town of Andrews has three schools. Andrews Elementary, Andrews Middle, and [[Andrews High School (North Carolina)|Andrews High School]] are part of the [[Cherokee County Schools (North Carolina)|Cherokee County School System]]. Until the early 1960s, all Andrews schools were located next to each other on the property of the current elementary school. A 1935 topographic map of Andrews shows each school building, marked with a flag, located adjacent to each other on Walnut Street (now Jean Christy Avenue) and Fourth Street.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Historic Aerials: Viewer |url=https://historicaerials.com/viewer |access-date=April 12, 2024 |website=historicaerials.com}}</ref> The current high school and current elementary school appears first in the 1975 map. Between 1935 and 1975, the school zone has dramatically changed. [[File:Andrews_Elementary_School_(Circa_1979).jpg|thumb|Andrews Elementary School in 1979. At the time this photo was taken, AES operated as a Pre-K through Grade 6 school and had just had its first expansion 4 years earlier.]] [[File:Gym Addition Plaque.jpg|thumb|Andrews Elementary had its second expansion in 2003.]] Andrews Elementary (AES) is a Pre-K thru Grade 5 school. The current school building was constructed in 1951 as the Andrews Primary School.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1952-08-21 |title=Cherokee scout. (Murphy, N.C.) 188?-1961, August 21, 1952, Image 1 |url=https://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn83004710/1952-08-21/ed-1/seq-1/ |issue=1952/08/21 |issn=0746-3987}}</ref> The building has had two expansions. In 1975, new classrooms, a cafeteria, a school library, and a separate building (for Pre-K) were added. This first expansion happened after the Andrews Grammar School, which was located just to the right of the small primary school building, was burned. After 1975, the school was Andrews Elementary. The school's second and most recent expansion occurred in 2003, with the addition of a gymnasium connected to the building on the west side of the building. The old rock gym built in 1934 east of the school closed in May 1999 due to safety concerns and was demolished that December.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brown |first=David |date=2024-12-18 |title=This Week in Local History |work=[[Cherokee Scout]] |publisher=[[Community Newspapers Inc.]] |location=Murphy, NC |page=9A}}</ref> With this expansion, Jean Christy Avenue was cut off and is now only a loop in the front of the school, and a road leading up to a turn onto Fourth Street behind the school. Andrews High School (AHS) is a 9 thru 12 school built in 1963, after a fire burned down the second campus built in 1914. It was incorporated by the [[North Carolina General Assembly]] in 1893. The school most likely opened in 1890, after the establishment of the town's name. From 1963 to 1999, Andrews High held students of Junior and Senior High. In 1998, a new campus built between Wakefield Road and US-19 Business was constructed. The 25-acres of land that this campus was built on was donated by the [[Lee (brand)|H.D. Lee]] factory (now the Industrial Opportunities, Inc. factory) west of the site. This site was the home of the new, $4.89 million Andrews Middle School, established and opened on August 9, 1999.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brown |first=David |date=2024-08-14 |title=This Week in Local History |work=[[Cherokee Scout]] |publisher=[[Community Newspapers Inc.]] |location=Murphy, NC |page=9A}}</ref> Junior High was turned to Middle School, and AES and AHS operated as a Pkβ5 and a 9β12 school. Andrews Elementary, Junior, and Senior High School were part of the Andrews City School District. Each city school district (Andrews and Murphy) had their own board of education and superintendent. Each district was in charge of many purchases for their schools, such as school transportation. Andrews was the first in Cherokee County to receive a school bus in 1926 and the first to receive an activity bus in 1951. The individual districts merged with Cherokee County Schools in 1969.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=March 27, 1969 |title=The Cherokee scout and Clay County progress. (Murphy, N.C.) 1961-1980, March 27, 1969, Image 1 |url=https://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn95072291/1969-03-27/ed-1/seq-1/ |issue=1969/03/27}}</ref> === Andrews City Schools Superintendents === # Isham Barney Hudson (1935β1951) # Charles O. Frazier (c.1962β1969) After the merger of Andrews and Murphy's districts in 1969, Cherokee County's superintendent was John Jordan.
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