Jackson Central-Merry High School

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Jackson Central-Merry High School
Location
332 Lane Ave
Jackson, Tennessee 38301

United States
Coordinates 35°37′40″N88°48′41″W / 35.627774°N 88.811347°W / 35.627774; -88.811347 Coordinates: 35°37′40″N88°48′41″W / 35.627774°N 88.811347°W / 35.627774; -88.811347
Information
Established1970 (combination of Jackson High and Merry High) it closed in 2016
School district Jackson-Madison County School District
SuperintendentDr. Verna D. Ruffin
PrincipalDr. Charles H Clark Jr
Grades9–12
Mascot Cougar
Website http://jcm.jmcss.org/

Jackson Central-Merry High School (also known as Jackson Central High School or JCM) was a public four-year high school located in Jackson, Tennessee, USA. The school was active from 1970 to 2016. Jackson Central-Merry was once the largest high school in West Tennessee outside Memphis.

Jackson, Tennessee City in Tennessee, United States

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History

The school was formed in 1970 as a consolidation of predominantly white Jackson High School and predominantly black Merry High School. [1] It was the first integrated high school in Jackson. The former Jackson High became the new school's "west campus" and the former Merry High became the "east campus." The school initially taught students in grades 10, 11 and 12. Freshmen students were added after the Jackson city school system consolidated with the Madison County system in the early 1990s.

Racial integration Process of ending racial segregation

Racial integration, or simply integration, includes desegregation. In addition to desegregation, integration includes goals such as leveling barriers to association, creating equal opportunity regardless of race, and the development of a culture that draws on diverse traditions, rather than merely bringing a racial minority into the majority culture. Desegregation is largely a legal matter, integration largely a social one.

Three city junior high schools (later middle schools) originally fed into JCM: Tigrett Junior High School, Jackson Junior High School and Parkway Junior High School. The school mascot was the Cougar. School colors were green and gold.

In 2003, the west campus became Madison Academic Magnet High School. Jackson Central-Merry was then entirely housed on the former east campus. Oman Arena is located between both campuses.

Madison Academic Magnet High School is a public high school in the Jackson Madison County School System located on Allen Avenue, in Jackson, Tennessee. The building was erected in 1928 as Jackson High School and underwent extensive renovations during the summer of 2003. The school was started in the autumn of 2003, replacing the former west campus of Jackson Central-Merry High School. The school is academically selective with each graduating class having no more than 125 students, and does not offer special education classes. It is ranked #21 in Best High Schools in Tennessee according to U.S. News & World Report.

The Oman Arena is a 5,600-seat multi-purpose arena, in Jackson, Tennessee, USA. It was opened in 1967, and is architecturally similar to the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, which was built four years earlier and seats almost twice as many patrons as Oman Arena.

Jackson Central-Merry Academy of Medical Technology Magnet High School

JCM was awarded the High School Redesign Grant, which provided $1.5 million over a three-year period to create the Jackson Central-Merry Academy of Medical Technology Magnet High School program, which was completed in 2010. [2]

Beginning in the 2010-11 school year, Jackson Central-Merry High School began offering a health science magnet school program. The program was intended to help incoming freshmen become certified in a healthcare related area upon the completion of high school. [3]

The program curriculum focused on advancing one of four fields of study:

Phlebotomy medical procedure involving an incision in a vein

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Biotechnology Use of living systems and organisms to develop or make useful products

Biotechnology is the broad area of biology involving living systems and organisms to develop or make products, or "any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use". Depending on the tools and applications, it often overlaps with the (related) fields of molecular biology, bio-engineering, biomedical engineering, biomanufacturing, molecular engineering, etc.

In December, 2015, the Jackson-Madison County School Board voted to close JCM after the 2015-16 academic year. Upon its closure, the school had graduated 46 senior classes over as many academic years. In 2019, the Board began discussions to renovate and reopen the school.

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