Head of school at Rabun Gap departs

The Head of Rabun Gab Nachoochie School Dr. Anthony Sgro (Scrow) will soon be saying goodbye to Rabun County and hello to another school in North Carolina.

Dr. Sgro will leave Rabun Gap this summer to take the Head of School position at his alma mater, Asheville School. Under Dr. Sgro’s leadership, Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School has more than doubled its enrollment, serving 600 students from 15 states and more than 50 countries, and maintained its commitment to financial access, with 75 percent of students receiving financial aid. His tenure saw the opening of the Niles Bolton Middle School Complex in 2013, the establishment of the Evelyne Sheats Lower School in 2017, and the construction of the Richard and John Woodruff Dining Hall, completed in 2019.

“On a very personal level, I have been changed for the better by Rabun Gap,” Sgro said. “I have always spent my life in privilege, in schools created to serve the very small and narrow margin of the world. Rabun Gap isn’t that place,” he said. “I feel like God has worked through Rabun Gap to affect and change my heart, to make me see something broader — to see education in a very different way, to see education as it can be and for what good it can do in the world today. We can all get along, we can all engage with one another, we can all celebrate… Rabun Gap is a place where the world can be.”

Margaret Carton, chair of the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School Board of Trustees, presented an official board resolution honoring Dr. Sgro for his legacy. The resolution established the Faulkner and Anthony Sgro Study Abroad Fund. This fund honors Dr. and Mrs. Sgro’s commitment to international educational access for all students. It will financially assist domestic students to study abroad at Rabun Gap’s campus in Spoleto, Italy and beyond. Click here to donate.