Editing High Shoals, North Carolina (section)

==Education==
Public education in High Shoals is administered by the [[Gaston County Schools]] public school system. There had been one elementary school in the town. However, High Shoals Elementary was closed in 1998 for financial reasons and consolidated with Costner Elementary School near [[Dallas, North Carolina]].<ref>[http://www.gaston.k12.nc.us/schools/costner/school_history.htm History of Costner Elementary] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090730015507/http://www.gaston.k12.nc.us/schools/costner/school_history.htm |date=2009-07-30 }}. Retrieved on 2008-08-07.</ref> Average attendance in 1908 was only 80. There was also another school named St. John’s Mission School.

Today, most of High Shoals is within the attendance district for Costner Elementary, except for a section on the eastern edge of town which belongs to the attendance district of Springfield Elementary School (grades K-2) and Kiser Elementary School (grades 3-5), both in [[Stanley, North Carolina|Stanley]]. All elementary school graduates from High Shoals feed into W.C. Friday Middle School and North Gaston High School, both in Dallas.<ref>Gaston County GIS. Retrieved on 2008-08-07.</ref>