Rogersville City School | |
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United States | |
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Type | Public |
Established | 1923 |
School district | Rogersville City Schools |
Grades | K-8 |
Campus type | Suburban |
Color(s) | Red, White, and Black |
Athletics | Interscholastic, Tennessee Middle School Athletics Association |
Mascot | Warriors |
Feeder to | Cherokee High School [ citation needed ] |
Website | http://www.rcschool.net/ |
Rogersville City School or Rogersville City Schools is a school district headquartered in Rogersville, Tennessee. It operates one K-8 school, Rogersville Elementary School. [1] The district's boundary parallels that of the municipality of Rogersville, and high school students move on to Hawkins County School District. [2]
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The school counts 1923 as the year of its establishment. [3] The school building was established on the site of the former King College for $125,000. A 1928 fire destroyed that building, so a $65,178 building opened in 1929. The school district described it as "almost an exact duplicate of the 1923 school." [4]
Grades K-12 were in one facility until 1950, when a new Rogersville High School opened. [4] The Rogersville Review stated in 1950 that, prior to the split, the school building was "overcrowded". [5]
In 1955 a 14,000-square-foot (1,300 m2) addition, called the West Wing, opened, built for $122,380. Another such addition, 20,656 square feet (1,919.0 m2) in size, called the East Wing, opened in 1970, built for $366,542. [4]
Rebecca Isaacs became superintendent in 2011, and by 2019 planned to resign in 2020; the board of trustees used Wayne Qualls as a consultant to look for another superintendent. [6]
J.T. Stroder became the director circa 2020, then resigned in 2021 citing reasons not related to the job. [7]
In 2024 the board of trustees asked Edwin Jarnigan to become the superintendent. [8]
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In 2019 Jeff Bobo of the Times News wrote that, including the 2017–2018 school year, Rogersville School had a "long history of high academic performance". [9]
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Prior to 1980, students attending the school who did not live in the city limits of Rogersville were permitted to take county school district-run buses. Beginning in 1980 the county school district nixed the practice. [10]