May 19, 2026
This chart shows the current capital projects being undertaken by Transylvania County Schools with a completion date before 2028. TCS
Jonathan Rich
BrevardBeagle.com
The last day Transylvania County Schools students will be in classes is June 5, but the school system has already assigned itself some summer homework in the form of a detailed schedule of construction and repairs scheduled to start next month with parts of the first phase of work being completed before students return to their campuses Aug. 24.
Monday night Joint School Bond Project Manager Beecher Allison updated the Transylvania County Board of Education on various bond projects in the first scope of work authorized by both the School Board and the Transylvania County Board of Commissioners.
“It’s work that we can procure in a timely manner to get that work started on June 8 at Brevard Middle School, Brevard High School and Rosman Elementary School,” Allison told members of the School Board and Superintendent Lisa Fletcher before detailing the projects to be undertaken when classes are not in session this summer.
“At Rosman Elementary, we’re fixing the stairstep cracks with geofoam and all the associated work that comes after that through that process,” he said.
“At Brevard High School, the roofing scope and brick repairs outside the auditorium. The roofing scope is a series of three-to-four roofs that are being replaced. They are prioritizing the media center and math wings this summer,” Allison continued. “The auditorium, band and drama wings, that’s what will go into the fall semester. We’re coordinating that through the end of September.”
In January 2024, the Transylvania County Board of Commissioners unanimously voted to issue the sale of $51 million in general obligation bonds with the hope it would pay for most of the capital improvements at all nine public schools within the next three years.
Allison is coordinating that work between contractors, the school board and county finance officials. Monday night, he said the most challenging school site to schedule was Brevard Middle School.
“We’re doing as much as we can in the summer to minimize what’s going on into the fall semester, but there definitely will be work going on into the fall semester there,” he said. “We’re hoping to maximize as much work as we can this summer.”
In December 2025, the NC Department of Public Instruction awarded Transylvania County Schools a $62 million grant which will be used in part to consolidate Davidson River Alternative School with Brevard High School while constructing a new 70,000 square foot career/technical education facility and exceptional children wing as well as simultaneously remodelling the arts wing at Brevard High School.
“The design team continues to move forward with designs to be released by May 29th based on the BHS grant project award and programming going on with that to not waste time or money as we’ve got some scope overlap,” Allison explained before adding that there was even more repair work going on at Rosman Middle and Rosman High School buildings.
“There are some expansion items, such as doing more for the secure vestibule improvements at each school and integrating the Rosman retaining wall that will need to come back for approval in order to be included,” he said.
Joint School Bond Project Manager Beecher Allison (right)) addresses the Transylvania County Board of Education on capital improvements within the public school system Monday night. Jonathan Rich
Final pricing and the timeline for that part of the bigger project picture will be reviewed by a subcommittee on May 29 and again in July and August with all work still on schedule to be completed by the end of 2028.
There is also repair work to be done on fuel storage tanks at Rosman High, TC Henderson and Rosman Middle schools.
“We’re going to replace the Rosman High tank that has been out there for a while. Kerry (Putnam) has helped make that a priority and we’re going to get that one done once and for all this summer,” Allison said. “The other three, based on testing results, were not deemed an emergency. Based on the way pricing came in, the county will have to take that out to bid themselves and re-bid that. The remaining tanks did not have any concerns identified in the testing, so the delay will not present any additional risks with those replacements. I just want to be clear on that.”
He said he was proud to report some improvement projects have already been completed, paid for and are already in use.
“The Brevard High School softball lighting project has closed out,” Allison said. “I’ve had a couple comments from parents of the softball student athletes that they all really enjoyed their lights for most of the season there.”
The retaining wall project at Rosman High and the exceptional children’s wing projects at an expanded Brevard High School are also on schedule, according to Allison.
“I like having work going on. That will all start on June 8 at the three sites,” he summarized. “All step-one bond work is expected to be approved this summer and ready for final review by August 28.”