Rowan–Salisbury School System
| Rowan-Salisbury School System | |
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Rowan County, NC North Carolina Piedmont United States |
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| District information | |
| Type | Public |
| Motto | Extraordinary Education Every Day |
| Grades | PK–12 |
| Established | 1989 |
| Superintendent | Dr. Lynn Moody |
| Asst. Superintendent(s) | Dr. Julie Morrow & Anthony Vann |
| Accreditation | AdvancED |
| Schools | 35 |
| Budget | $190,480,000 |
| District ID | 3704050 |
| Students and staff | |
| Students | 20,000 |
| Teachers | 1,400.69 (on FTE basis) |
| Staff | 1,345.21 (on FTE basis) |
| Student-teacher ratio | 14.61:1 |
| Other information | |
| Website | www |
The Rowan-Salisbury School System (also called Rowan-Salisbury Schools) is a PK–12 graded school district in North Carolina covering nearly all of Rowan County including the city of Salisbury. The second largest employer in the county, the system's 35 schools serve 20,000 students as of 2013–2014. Salisbury split off from the original county-wide system in 1921, but merged back into the county system in 1989.
Josh Wagner chairs the seven-member Board of Education while Dr. Lynn Moody serves as the fifth superintendent of the combined system. The system has won several awards, including two statewide Teachers of the Year and two Blue Ribbon schools.
The history of public education in Rowan County began shortly after the state passed its first common school law in 1839. The state was then divided into several school districts. District number 22 (called the Setzer School District) covered Rowan County and was based in the Setzer School, a one-room log school built in 1840s just east of China Grove.
The first public schools in Rowan were established in 1847. Several citizens interested in education met and formed the Board of Superintendents of Common Schools of Rowan County on May 8, 1847. They elected Hamilton C. Jones as their first chairman. That year, they worked to hire teachers, choose/elect superintendents and divide the county into 47 school districts.
Educational progress happened more rapidly in the city of Salisbury than in the rest of the county. While Salisbury's schools grew, schools in the rest of Rowan County lagged far behind. After the city school system split off, the difference became more noticeable as a report from John H. Cook from the North Carolina College for Women (now, University of North Carolina at Greensboro) around 1924 called the county's schools the worst in North Carolina. At the time, the county only had 36 schools many of which were only one or two room buildings. Cook devised a plan for school improvement and new school construction which the county commissioners and the citizens promptly adopted in 1924. Soon thereafter, a school construction boom created 18 schools with at least eight rooms each.
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