David Crockett High School (Tennessee)

Last updated

David Crockett High School
Address
David Crockett High School (Tennessee)
684 Old State Route 34

Jonesborough
,
Tennessee
37659

U.S.A.
Coordinates 36°15′35.4″N82°30′9.9″W / 36.259833°N 82.502750°W / 36.259833; -82.502750
Information
Type High school
Establishedc. 1971
School districtWashington County Schools
PrincipalDr. Ashley Davis
Grades9–12
Enrollment1,181 (2022–23) [1]
Color(s)Brown and gold    [2]
Mascot Pioneer
Nickname Pioneers [2]
Website David Crockett High School

David Crockett High School is a high school located in Jonesborough, Tennessee. It is ranked as the 75th high school in the state of Tennessee. [3] It serves as one of two high schools in the Washington County School System, with it specifically serving the southern part of the county. The other county high school is Daniel Boone High School, which serves the northern part of the county. [4]

Contents

The school has an enrollment of 1,181 (2022-2023). In the Advanced Placement (AP) department, nineteen percent of the student body has taken an AP exam at least once, with forty-two percent an exam once passing exam. [3] The school was named after the celebrated 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician, David (Davy) Crockett. [5] The name is in contrast to the Daniel Boone High School (Tennessee), which is named after Daniel Boone. This plays into their football rivalry. The school colors are brown (or "buckskin") and old gold. [4] The school's mascot is a Pioneer. [6]

School content

David Crockett has a mixture between Vocational education CTE), Advanced Placement (AP), and Dual enrollment classes. The school has several CTE classes: Agriculture, Teaching, Welding, Electrical, Machine Shop, Business, Digital Design, Nursing, and Culinary (there may be more). There are several greenhouses on the campus. For CTE classes, there may be the option to get a Professional certification. The school has several AP classes: Human Geography, Government, US History, Language and Composition, Literature, Statistics, Pr-Calculus (Trigonometry), and Calculus. In AP, nineteen percent of the student body has taken an AP exam, with forty-two percent passing exam. [3] For Dual Enrollment, the students take classes for East Tennessee State University and Northeast State Community College. Students can take some classes online, at the high school, or on the university for the class. However, the school may phase out the Dual Enrollment program, by the 2025-2026 year, for a focus on AP.

Sport History

Each year, David Crockett plays Daniel Boone in football. The game referred to as the "Musket Bowl" was first played in 1971 when the two new consolidated high schools opened their doors, and David Crockett High defeated Daniel Boone High by a score of 72–0. [7] The next week, David Crockett was ranked No. 1 in the state by Litratings, a difference-by-scores system. Since then, the Daniel Boone Trailblazers have dominated the series and hold a 37–12 edge over the David Crockett Pioneers (as of 2019), winning the latest game played 28-20 at home. [8] The game gained popularity by being played annually in the Mini-Dome at East Tennessee State University (ETSU). Today, the Musket Bowl is held at Daniel Boone and David Crockett High Schools where each school rotates the event each year. The winning team is presented with a “musket.” [9] If that team wins three years consecutively, they keep the musket, and a new one is purchased for the next season’s game. Daniel Boone High has accomplished this more than Crockett. [10] It's the “Battle of Washington County…the Pioneers vs. the Trailblazers.” Recently a series called "The Kings of The Nolichucky", has pitted the football team from David Crockett against nearby Chuckey Doak and Unicoi County High Schools whose service areas also border the Nolichucky River. David Crockett is undefeated in the series and holds the title "Kings of the Nolichucky" as of 2014–15. [11]

2014 Musket Bowl Fight

In 2014, a fight broke out at the end of the Musket Bowl. The score was a lose for Crockett with a 23-16 score. The fight was quickly broken up by the sheriff deputies. It resulted in a three-year post season ban and fines that amounted to around $5,000. [12]

2022 Musket Bowl Skydiving Accident

On October 21, 2022, a fatal skydiving accident occurred at the school before a football match against Daniel Boone High School. 55-year-old Richard Sheffield was part of Jump TN, a skydiving team hired to perform a demonstration jump during the pre-game. Sheffield suffered a hard landing outside the intended landing area on the football field and was flown to a nearby hospital where he later died. As a result of the accident the football match was delayed. [13] [14]

Washington County Sheriff Keith Sexton concluded that there were no suspicious circumstances in the incident and that Sheffield's death was "a very unfortunate accident". [14]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Washington County, Tennessee</span> County in Tennessee, United States

Washington County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 133,001. Its county seat is Jonesborough. The county's largest city and a regional educational, medical and commercial center is Johnson City. Washington County is Tennessee's oldest county, having been established in 1777 when the state was still part of North Carolina. Washington County is part of the Johnson City, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a component of the Johnson City–Kingsport–Bristol, TN-VA Combined Statistical Area, commonly known as the "Tri-Cities" region.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Greene County, Tennessee</span> County in Tennessee, United States

Greene County is a county located on the eastern border of the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 70,152. Its county seat is Greeneville. Greene County comprises the Greeneville, TN Micropolitan Statistical Area.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Benet Academy</span> Private school in Lisle, Illinois, United States

Benet Academy is a co-educational, college-preparatory, Benedictine high school in Lisle, Illinois, United States, overseen by the Diocese of Joliet. Founded in 1886, the school was initially established in Chicago as the all-boys St. Procopius College and Academy by Benedictine monks, who also operated the St. Joseph Bohemian Orphanage. In 1898, the orphanage moved to Lisle, about 25 miles (40 km) west of Chicago, to be joined by St. Procopius three years later. In 1926, Benedictine nuns constructed the all-girls Sacred Heart Academy near the orphanage and school in Lisle. The orphanage closed in 1956 to make room for St. Procopius Academy, which separated from the college in 1969. Due to rising costs and waning enrollment, Sacred Heart merged with St. Procopius Academy in 1967 to form Benet Academy on the St. Procopius campus. Since then, numerous building projects have been undertaken to expand Benet's athletics, music, and science programs.

La Costa Canyon High School (LCC) is a public high school in Carlsbad, California. It is an International Baccalaureate World School and is part of the San Dieguito Union High School District, serving northwestern San Diego County.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Suncoast Community High School</span> Magnet high school in Riviera Beach, Palm Beach, Florida, United States of America

Suncoast Community High School is a public magnet high school in Riviera Beach, Florida. The school's campus was built in 1955 as Riviera Beach High School. It was desegregated in the 1960s and renamed in 1970. It became a magnet school in 1989 and has selective admissions.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Freedom High School (Orlando, Florida)</span> High school in Orlando, Florida

Freedom High School is located in Orlando, Florida. It is one of twenty public high schools in Orange County. The school was established in 2003 in order to relieve crowding at nearby Cypress Creek High School; like other relief high schools, they share a rivalry. It is a rivalry dubbed as the South Orange Classic. Freedom's feeder schools are Freedom Middle School, Hunter's Creek Middle School and West Ridge Middle School in Oak Ridge. The current principal is Mr. Charles France. It has nearly identical campus layouts as Olympia High School and Timber Creek High School. Lake Brantley High School in neighboring Seminole County has similar colors and nickname.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Belmont High School (Massachusetts)</span> School in Belmont, Middlesex County, MA, United States

Belmont High School is a four-year public high school in Belmont, Massachusetts, United States. It had 1,364 students enrolled and a student/teacher ratio of 16.3:1 in the 2022–2023 school year. It placed #290 in the 2023 U.S. News & World Report national rankings and #3 for Massachusetts.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dutchtown High School (Louisiana)</span> School in Geismar, Louisiana, United States

Dutchtown High School is a 5A school that was completed in 2003 in Geismar, an unincorporated area of Ascension Parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is within the Ascension Parish School Board. Dutchtown Middle and Bluff Middle Schools feed into Dutchtown High. The architecture is based on that of the old Dutchtown High, which was situated across the highway at the current Dutchtown Middle School.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Summit Preparatory Charter High School</span> College preparatory school in Redwood City, California, USA

Summit Preparatory Charter High School also known as Summit Prep, is a college preparatory and charter high school that was founded in 2003. Summit Prep is the first school founded by the charter management organization (CMO) Summit Public Schools, which has eight schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and three in Washington state. It is part of the Sequoia Union High School District.

Bolton High School is a public high school located in unincorporated Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, that is a part of the Memphis-Shelby County Schools district. Bolton High School is located northwest of the town of Arlington. The student body makeup is 50 percent male and 50 percent female, and the total minority enrollment is 86 percent.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mountain View High School (Washington)</span> Secondary school in Vancouver, Washington, United States

Mountain View High School is a public high school located in Vancouver, Washington. It was the second high school built in the Evergreen Public Schools, and one of four high schools in the area.

Munford High School is a public high school located in Munford, Tennessee. The school educates about 1,300 students in grades 9 to 12 in the Tipton County School District.

Daniel Boone High School is a public high school located in Gray, Tennessee, US. It is one of two high schools in the Washington County Schools system.

Daniel Boone (1734–1820) was an American pioneer and hunter whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ryle High School</span> Public secondary school in the United States

Larry A. Ryle High School is a public secondary school located in Union, Kentucky. The school's mascot is the Raiders.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St. Anthony Village High School</span> Public school in St. Anthony, Minnesota, United States

St. Anthony Village High School is a public high school in St. Anthony Village, Minnesota, United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Powhatan High School</span> Public school in Powhatan, Virginia

Powhatan High School is a public high school in Powhatan County, Virginia. It serves 1,404 students and is the only high school in the Powhatan County Public Schools school system.

Brighton High School is a high school in Brighton, Tennessee. It one of three high schools in Tipton County; the others are Covington High School and Munford High School.

Greeneville High School (GHS) is a high school in Greeneville, Tennessee, a town most known as the place in which U.S. President Andrew Johnson began his political career as the city mayor. It is part of the Town of Greeneville City School System. In 2008, it was named as a Blue Ribbon School, the only high school in Tennessee to receive such honor that year.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Coalinga High School</span> Comprehensive public high school in the United States

Coalinga High School is a public high school in Coalinga, California. It lies southwest of Fresno, California and northeast of San Luis Obispo, California. It serves both the communities of Coalinga and Huron. It is a member of the West Sierra League Conference. Its mascot is the Horned Toad.

References

  1. ↑ "David Crockett High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
  2. 1 2 "David Crockett High School". Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association. Retrieved March 20, 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 "David Crockett High School". US News and World Report. Archived from the original on May 28, 2024. Retrieved May 28, 2024.
  4. 1 2 "The North | Definition, States, & History | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved February 20, 2023.
  5. ↑ "Ulster-Scots Agency - What is Ulster-Scots - Famous Ulster-Scots - Person - David Crockett (1786 - 1836)". www.ulsterscotsagency.com. Retrieved September 11, 2022.
  6. ↑ "David Crockett High School". highschoolguide.org. Retrieved February 20, 2023.
  7. ↑ "Pioneer Athletics / Welcome to Pioneer Country". www.wcde.org. Retrieved February 20, 2023.[ permanent dead link ]
  8. ↑ "David Crockett vs Daniel Boone | Football | October 25, 2019 | MaxPreps". www.maxpreps.com. Retrieved September 11, 2022.
  9. ↑ "Pioneer Athletics / Welcome to Pioneer Country". www.wcde.org. Retrieved February 20, 2023.[ permanent dead link ]
  10. ↑ "Pioneer Athletics / Welcome to Pioneer Country". www.wcde.org. Retrieved February 20, 2023.[ permanent dead link ]
  11. ↑ "Pioneer Athletics / Welcome to Pioneer Country". www.wcde.org. Retrieved February 20, 2023.[ permanent dead link ]
  12. ↑ "Tennessee prep football rivalry game ends in nasty brawl". USA TODAY High School Sports. November 1, 2014. Archived from the original on May 29, 2024. Retrieved May 29, 2024.
  13. ↑ "Grandfather killed in skydiving accident at high school football game in Tennessee Friday". WTVC . October 22, 2022. Retrieved May 19, 2024.
  14. 1 2 "Skydiver killed in accident at David Crockett High School identified". WCYB-TV . October 24, 2022. Retrieved May 19, 2024.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.