Editing Rowan County, North Carolina (section)

==Education==
===Colleges===
* [[Catawba College]], founded in 1851<ref>{{cite web|url=https://catawba.edu/|title=About Catawaba College|access-date=February 10, 2019}}</ref>
* [[Livingstone College]], founded in 1879<ref name=VisitRowan>{{cite web|url=https://www.visitsalisburync.com/plan/colleges/|title=Visit Rowan County|access-date=February 10, 2019}}</ref>
* [[Rowan-Cabarrus Community College]]. (Otherwise known as RCCC), founded in 1963<ref name=VisitRowan/>
* Hood Theological Seminary, founded in 1885, became independent in 2001<ref name=VisitRowan/>
* [[Campbell University]], teaching hospital at Novant Health, Rowan Medical Center, started in 2014<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.campbell.edu/articles/campbell-announces-teaching-hospital-agreement-with-novant-health-rowan-medical-center/|title=Campbell announces teaching hospital agreement with Novant Health Rowan Medical Center|access-date=February 10, 2019}}</ref>

===Rowan–Salisbury School System===
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The Rowan–Salisbury School System is a [[Pre-kindergarten|PK]]-[[Twelfth grade|12]] graded [[school district]] covering nearly all of Rowan County. The 35 schools in the district serve 20,887 students as of 2009–2010.{{NCES District ID|3704050|district_name=Rowan-salisbury Schools|access_date=October 29, 2011|do_not_render=yes}} It was formed in 1989 with the merger of Rowan County Schools and Salisbury City Schools.<ref name="centraloffice">{{cite news|last=Campbell|first=Sarah|title=Developer offers plans for central office downtown for schools|url=http://www.salisburypost.com/News/070111-School-board-central-office-qcd|access-date=October 26, 2011|newspaper=Salisbury Post|date=July 1, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110703134140/http://www.salisburypost.com/News/070111-School-board-central-office-qcd|archive-date=July 3, 2011}}</ref>

===Kannapolis City Schools===
{{main|Kannapolis City Schools}}
Students living in the portion of [[Kannapolis, North Carolina|Kannapolis]] located in Rowan County (the city is mostly in [[Cabarrus County]]) attend Kannapolis city schools. Their public school system operates independently of the countywide school systems.

===Private schools===
* North Hills Christian School – (pre-school through high school)
* Rockwell Christian School (pre-school through high school)
* Sacred Heart Catholic School – (elementary through middle school)
* Salisbury Academy – (pre-kindergarten through middle school)
* Salisbury Adventist School

===Libraries===
* [[Rowan Public Library]]
** Headquarters (Salisbury)
** East Branch (Rockwell)
** Frank T. Tadlock South Rowan Regional Library (China Grove)
** West Branch (Cleveland)