Cane Creek Middle School is part of the Buncombe County Schools System in Fletcher, North Carolina. The school was built in 2000. Cane Creek participates in many national and international education contests including Mathcounts, Odyssey of the Mind, Science Olympiad, National History Day, National Geographic Bee, as well as all regular middle school sports (basketball, American football, baseball, soccer, softball, volleyball, wrestling, track, and cross country) and also has a school yearbook. Cane Creek feeds to A. C. Reynolds High School and T. C. Roberson High School. The school's mascot is a Hurricane with blue and green being its school colors (made to show the split before high school; Reynolds being green and Roberson being blue). Cane Creek has also performed a number of musicals such as You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Back to the 80s, Annie and Cinderella, being one of the only middle schools in the country to have its own symphonic band play in the pit parts for each play. Cane Creek is renowned for an exceptional band along with chorus. It has been elected "best of this year" 11 years in a row.
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