The Ashe County Board of Education is a non-partisan board consisting of five members.  Members are elected to four-year terms. Ashe County citizens take great pride in the school system. Ashe County is located in Blue Ridge Mountains in the rural northwest of North Carolina. There are about 3,100 students in our school system that consists of 6 schools and a pre-school program (1 pre-school, 3 elementary schools, 1 middle school, 1 high school, 1 early college).