Asheville School for Girls

ASHEVILLE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
Founded 1911
The Asheville School for Girls was created by a group of Asheville families to provide a "high class school for their daughters that shall be worthy of the beautiful city in which it is located and sufficiently equipped to accommodate a limited number of pupils from a distance." A building was chosen at the then "head of North Main Street." It had a small boarding department for pupils who came from locations outside of Asheville. The mission of the school was to prepare girls for "true colleges of high grade and to give those who may never enter college such through instruction in the ordinary courses of study and such wholesome discipline that they will become well educated, refined, and sensible women." The course of study included English, Latin, History, Mathematics, Physiology, Botany, and Physical Geography. There was also a Kindergarten for approximately twenty children and a Primary Department consisting of the first through the third grade. The Intermediate Department consisted of four years of study and the College Preparatory Department also consisted of four years of study. There were two general examinations conducted in writing. One occurred in January and the other in May. There are five report periods described in the 1912-1913 catalog. The total cost for board for the year was $500.00 in 1912-13. The cost of tuition varied across the Departments from $45.00 for Kindergarten to $90.00 for the College Preparatory Department. Piano lesson cost from $50.00 to $120.00 and Voice $120.00. See Asheville School for Girls *Collection* - UNCA
"This was begun in 1911, with Miss Ford as principal, assisted by several competent teachers. It occupies the handsome and commodious residence built by Col. N.W. Woodfin at the corner of North Main and Woodfin streets, Asheville, and enlarged by the late D. J. H. Burroughs." (1914. Arthur, Preston. Western North Carolina: A History, p. 429)