Brevard Academy

Located at 1110 Hendersonville Highway, in Pisgah Forest, North Carolina, Brevard Academy is a medium-sized elementary-level community that instructs 435 students (grades K through 8), overseen by Brevard Academy.

Operationally, Brevard Academy answers to Brevard Academy, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Demographically, Brevard Academy logs that nearly all students (89%) are White. The remainder reads as 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Transylvania County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,184 per year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Transylvania County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,640 students), of which Brevard Academy is one.

The closest other public school is Davidson River School, roughly 1.3 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a small-town setting. Brevard Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Brevard Academy has edged up 14%, going from 383 students in 2018 to 435 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, members of the Brevard Academy community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.