Editing Gastonia, North Carolina (section)

==Education==
===K–12===
All public K–12 schools in Gaston County, including the city of Gastonia, are part of the [[Gaston County Schools]] (GCS). GCS operates schools at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.

There are five public high schools in Gastonia: [[Ashbrook High School]], [[Forestview High School]], [[Hunter Huss High School]],  [[Highland School of Technology]], and [[Warlick Academy]], the alternative placement school. Students from outlying parts of Gastonia also attend [[Stuart W. Cramer High School]], [[North Gaston High School]], and [[Bessemer City High School (North Carolina)|Bessemer City High School]].

Private schools are also available in the city. [[Gaston Day School]] and [[Gaston Christian School]] are among various private schools offered in the Gastonia area.

Gastonia also has a charter school, Piedmont Community Charter School, that serves K–12 grade students. Currently the school has an Elementary campus along with a Secondary campus. A new High School campus is presently under construction. The new campus is set to open for the 2020–2021 school year.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Piedmont Community Charter School |url=https://pccharter.org/ |website=pccharter.org}}</ref>

===College and university===
Although there are no colleges or universities within the city limits of Gastonia, higher education is well represented in the greater Gastonia area. Gaston County is home to [[Belmont Abbey College]] (Belmont; four-year) and [[Gaston College]] ([[Dallas, North Carolina|Dallas]], [[Lincolnton, North Carolina|Lincolnton]] (Lincoln County), and Belmont; two-year).

===Library===
The Gaston County Public Library has three locations in the city.<ref>{{cite web | title = Gaston County Public Library | publisher = Gaston county Public Library | url = http://gastonlibrary.org/ | access-date = January 23, 2014}}</ref>