Assistant principal in Gaston County earns statewide recognition
Bessemer City High School’s Meghan LeFevers is the North Carolina Secondary Assistant Principal of the Year for 2018
Meghan LeFevers,
an assistant principal at
Bessemer City High School,
received the statewide award
from the North Carolina
Principals and Assistant
Principals’ Association
(NCPAPA). She will be
formally recognized at the
NCPAPA annual meeting in
April and represent North
Carolina at the National
Association of Secondary
School Principals (NASSP)
conference in Chicago, July 11-13, 2018. Additionally, she will vie for
the distinction of NASSP Assistant Principal of the Year.
“This is a very significant recognition for Ms. LeFevers, Bessemer
City High School, and Gaston County Schools, and we are extremely
pleased to congratulate her on earning this state honor,” stated
Superintendent of Schools W. Jeffrey Booker. “This award recognizes
Ms. LeFevers for her outstanding work and dedication as an assistant
principal. It also brings attention to her success as an educational
leader in Gaston County, both as a middle school teacher and a
school administrator.”
LeFevers joined Gaston County Schools in 2007 and has served as
an assistant principal at Bessemer City High School since 2014. Prior
to becoming an assistant principal, she was a science, math, and
social studies teacher at W.C. Friday Middle School in Dallas (2007-
2013) and spent the 2013-2014 academic year completing a North
Carolina Principal Fellows internship at Bessemer City High School.
A native of Cherryville, LeFevers graduated from Cherryville High
School in 2003. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Elementary
QuestBridge Scholars of 2018
Congratulations to our QuestBridge
Scholars in the Class of 2018: Dustin
Hoffman and Julia Murrow. Both of
them are students at Highland School of
Technology. Through the QuestBridge
program, they will receive a full-tuition
scholarship. Dustin plans to attend
Emory University, and Julia plans to
attend Duke University. Over the past
three years, we’ve had five students
to earn scholarships in the highly-
competitive QuestBridge program,
which provides financial support for the
country’s most promising students.
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Education from Appalachian State University in 2007 and a Master of
School Administration from UNC-Charlotte in 2014. She completed
her undergraduate and graduate coursework with ‘summa cum laude’
academic status and was inducted into the Kappa Delta Pi National
Honor Society at