{{Short description|American public school in North Carolina}} {{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Infobox school | name = Brevard High School | image_size = 250px | address = 609 N Country Club Rd | city = Brevard, North Carolina | zipcode = 28712 | country = United States | coordinates = {{coord|35.2172|-82.7350|region:US-NC_type:edu|format=dms|display=it}} | district = Transylvania County Schools | grades = 9–12 | ceeb = 340445 | principal = David Galloway | staff = 59.21 (FTE)<ref name=NCES/> | ratio = 13.63<ref name=NCES/> | schooltype = Public | campus_type = | motto = | mascot = Blue Devils | mascot image = | colors = Blue and white <br> {{color box|#09158F|border=silver}}{{color box|white|border=silver}} | established = | enrollment = 807 (2023-2024)<ref name=NCES>{{cite web |url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3704530&ID=370453001778 |title=Brevard High |publisher=National Center for Education Statistics |accessdate=March 28, 2025}}</ref> | website = {{URL|https://bhs.tcsnc.org/}} }}
'''Brevard High School''' is a public high school in Brevard, North Carolina, one of three in the Transylvania County Schools district. In the 2022–2023 school year, it had an enrollment of 751.<ref name=NCES/> David "Mick" Galloway became the principal at the start of the 2023–2024 school year.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.transylvaniatimes.com/education/long-time-school-employee-taking-over-bhs-principal-reins/article_8eb09c6a-2c84-11ee-851d-4b8807cd377b.html |title=Long-time school employee taking over BHS principal reins |newspaper=The Transylvania Times |date=July 27, 2023 }}</ref>
The school was located on South Broad Street from 1925 until the 1959–60 school year, when the campus on Country Club Road opened.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.transylvaniatimes.com/story/2015/11/19/lifestyles/bhs-class-of-1960-holds-their-55th-reunion-brevard-nc/25194.html |title=BHS Class Of 1960 Holds Their 55th Reunion – Brevard NC |newspaper=The Transylvania Times |date=November 19, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Jonathan |last=Rich |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1665&dat=20070815&id=Nx4aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OyUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2578,3605985&hl=en |title=Brevard High alums seek to memorialize site |newspaper=Times-News |location=Hendersonville, North Carolina |date=August 15, 2007 |page=1C}}</ref> Until court-ordered desegregation began in 1963, Brevard High was white, and black students attended a school in Hendersonville.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1665&dat=19630417&id=UTQbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QE4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=2070,5131743&hl=en |title=Board Discusses Future Of School |newspaper=Times-News |date=April 23, 1963 |page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Jimmy |last=Fain |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1665&dat=19790226&id=A0caAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rSQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6839,6021156&hl=en |title=Progress Made In Henderson County Education |newspaper=Times-News |date=February 28, 1979 |page=13F}}</ref>
==Athletics== Brevard High School competes on the NCHSAA 2A level. Its teams are the Blue Devils. Sports include basketball, cross-country, golf, football, soccer, track, volleyball, and wrestling.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tcsnc.org/Page/1306 |title=Brevard High School sports schedules |publisher=Transylvania County Schools |accessdate=February 2, 2016}}</ref> The football team has won the state championship twice. In 1963, a racially integrated team played Reidsville High School to a 0–0 draw in the state AAA championship; the teams were declared co-champions and after winning a coin toss, Brevard took the trophy.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://aahc.nc.gov/programs/nc-civil-rights-trail/nc-civil-rights-virtual-trail/brevard-high-school-1960s |title=Brevard High School (1960s) |publisher=North Carolina African American Heritage Commission, North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources |access-date=January 21, 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Jeremiah |last=Reed |url=https://www.transylvaniatimes.com/sports/blue-devils-face-rams-for-trip-to-state-championship---brevard-nc/article_6ff49c90-646f-50f5-a37c-c41a522d32df.html |title=Blue Devils Face Rams For Trip To State Championship - Brevard NC |newspaper=The Transylvania Times |date=December 6, 2021 |orig-date=December 5, 2018 }}</ref> In 1982 Brevard won for the second time after going undefeated.<ref>{{cite news |first=Robbie |last=Robertson |url=http://www.transylvaniatimes.com/story/2014/11/06/news/blue-devils-football-coach-frank-robinson-remembered-brevard-nc/20392.html |title=Blue Devils Football Coach Frank Robinson Remembered - Brevard NC |newspaper=The Transylvania Times |date=November 6, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Noel |last=Neff |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1665&dat=19830122&id=Kh8aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OiUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5739,2547856&hl=en |title=Brevard puts together unbeatable combination |newspaper=Times-News |date=January 22, 1983 |page=13}}</ref>
Brevard has had a longstanding athletic rivalry with the Hendersonville High School Bearcats;<ref>{{cite news |first=Buddy |last=Chapman |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1665&dat=19661025&id=5QEaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VCMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7193,2010318&hl=en |title=Creasman can never forget Brevard |newspaper=Times-News |date=October 26, 1966 |page=20}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Mead |last=Parce |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1665&dat=19690828&id=yj1PAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KyQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6819,4992375&hl=en |title=Football Season Opens Here Friday Night |newspaper=Times-News |date=August 28, 1969 |page=18}}</ref> incidents with unruly spectators led to a 1963 ban on competitions between the two teams without special permission.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1665&dat=19630125&id=MjQbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QE4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6943,1266284&hl=en |title=Board Ends Athletic Contests With Brevard: Long Rivalry Broken; Conference May Die |newspaper=Times-News |date=January 29, 1963 |page=10}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Rocky |last=Stone |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1665&dat=19630305&id=QzQbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QE4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5568,2803337&hl=en |title=Peace In Blue Ridge; Bearcats Play |newspaper=Times-News |date=March 4, 1963 |page=8}}</ref>
==Notable alumni== * Mickey Marvin, former NFL offensive guard and two-time Super Bowl champion with the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/MarvMi20.htm |title=Mickey Marvin |website=Pro-Football-Reference |access-date=February 28, 2019 }}</ref> * Steve Penn, handball player who represented the United States at the 1996 Summer Olympics<ref>{{cite book |first=Tim W. |last=Jackson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nucsDgAAQBAJ&dq=steve+penn+handball+brevard+high+school&pg=PA200 |title=Gone Pro: North Carolina: Tar Heels Who Became Pros |location=Covington, Kentucky |publisher=Clerisy |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-57860-545-3 |page=200 }}</ref> * James Suttles, filmmaker<ref>{{cite news |first=John |last=Lanier |date=January 18, 2016 |url=https://www.transylvaniatimes.com/story/2016/01/18/features/suttles-returns-home-for-his-feature-film-brevard-nc/25943.html |title=Suttles Returns Home For His Feature Film – Brevard NC |newspaper=The Transylvania Times |access-date=September 16, 2020 }}</ref>
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