News & Announcements

Due to the concern over the safety of water because of a water main break in Bryson City, there will be no school at Swain High School, Swain Middle School and Bright Adventures Prek on Wednesday, October 19th. We fully anticipate water being returned to normal by the end of the day Wednesday. East Elementary and West Elementary will all operate on normal schedules tomorrow.

The Online Student Registration Form is open for the 2022-2023 school year for students that completed the previous school year in our school system!!! Please consider using this online process in place of many of the hard copy student forms that your child brings home at the beginning of the school year. https://bit.ly/SCSOnlineReg22

Young Insurance Group is offering voluntary student accident insurance for the 2022-2023 school year. Information is posted under the For Parents section under the Student Accident Insurance link. You can apply on-line or by mail. Applications are available on the school website at
https://www.swain.k12.nc.us/apps/pages/studentaccidentinsurance

Positive Covid-19 numbers will be posted here each week. Please click the article headline to view these numbers.

At approximately 7:45 this morning a teacher at East Elementary School was notified by a student of a potential gun in another student’s backpack. The teacher opened the backpack and saw what she believed to be a handgun. The teacher immediately notified East Elementary Principal Amanda Sutton who secured the bag and placed the school on lockdown. Our School Resource Officer then took the bag, and upon initial observation believed it to be a handgun. Once he took it out of the backpack, he discovered that it was an airsoft gun. At this time, with the airsoft gun secured, there was no further threat and the lockdown, and perimeter lockdown of our Swain County Schools, was lifted and all activities have returned to normal. The investigation into the incident by Swain County Schools is ongoing at this time.