{"id":2,"date":"2011-01-13T18:58:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T18:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hendersoncountypublicschoolsnc.org\/early-college-high-school\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-08-28T08:32:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:32:24","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hendersoncountypublicschoolsnc.org\/hcec\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>About Us<\/h1>\n<p>Welcome to Henderson County Early College! HCEC offers a student-centered, rigorous academic community that allows students to be creative, resilient and independent while developing a strong sense of global awareness and community service. As we journey on the 2025-26 school year together, we want to help students and families know where to find helpful information and resources.<\/p>\n<p>HCEC is housed at Blue Ridge Community College on the Henderson County Campus. All offices and classrooms for the high school are located in the Innovative High Schools (IHS) building.<\/p>\n<p>All visitors will use the front entrance on East Campus Drive for help, tours of the school, or to drop off or pick up students during the school day.<\/p>\n<p>The goals of the Early College are to provide:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An opportunity to graduate with a high school diploma and two years of college credit; usually takes five years<\/li>\n<li>A powerful learning experience for all students, fueled by dedicated teachers<\/li>\n<li>Individualized attention for each student helping him\/her maximize individual academic, personal and social development<\/li>\n<li>An educational learning community where teachers and students build strong academic relationships and work together toward common goals<\/li>\n<li>An opportunity for students to impact their community through service learning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Office Hours:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Monday-Friday 7:30 AM-3:30 PM<\/p>\n<p><strong>Address:<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 300 East Campus Drive, Flat Rock, NC 28731<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phone:\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (828) 697-4561<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fax:<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (828) 697-4564<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mission:<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 HCEC provides a personalized, goal-oriented, rigorous educational program. Our unique environment allows us to truly know our students so that we may help them define and reach their college, career and life goals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vision:<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Inspiring Success!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mascot:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Roadrunner<\/p>\n<p><strong>School Colors:<\/strong> \u00a0 Navy and silver<\/p>\n<p><strong>Website:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0https:\/\/www.hendersoncountypublicschoolsnc.org\/hcec\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Us Welcome to Henderson County Early College! HCEC offers a student-centered, rigorous academic community that allows students to be creative, resilient and independent while developing a strong sense of global awareness and community service. As we journey on the 2025-26 school year together, we want to help students and families know where to find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hendersoncountypublicschoolsnc.org\/hcec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hendersoncountypublicschoolsnc.org\/hcec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hendersoncountypublicschoolsnc.org\/hcec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hendersoncountypublicschoolsnc.org\/hcec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hendersoncountypublicschoolsnc.org\/hcec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hendersoncountypublicschoolsnc.org\/hcec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7518,"href":"https:\/\/www.hendersoncountypublicschoolsnc.org\/hcec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/7518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hendersoncountypublicschoolsnc.org\/hcec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}