Cherokee High School (Rogersville, Tennessee)

Cherokee Comprehensive High School
Cherokee High School
Established	1980
Type	Secondary School
Principal	Patrick Fraley
Asst. Principal	Vakisha Henard, Scott Jones, Bob Edens
Students	1,125[1]
9-12
Location	2927 Highway 66, Rogersville, Tennessee, USA
District	Hawkins County School System
Director of Schools	Charlotte Britton
Accreditation	Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Colors	Red and Black
Athletics	TSSAA District 2 AAA (5A/Football)
Mascot	Chiefs
Yearbook	'Keetoowah'
Newspaper	'The Cherokee Chief'
Fight Song	War Chant
ACT Average	18.5[1]
Website	http://www.hck12.net/cherokee

Cherokee Comprehensive High School is a secondary school within the Hawkins County School System near Rogersville, Tennessee.

History

Cherokee High School was founded in 1980 after the Hawkins County Board of Education had determined, beginning in the mid-1970s, that it would be more cost effective for the school system to construct and operate two comprehensive high schools rather than the four community-based high schools it was then operating. The two schools would be centered in the western and eastern ends of the county, to service the county's two main population centers: Rogersville-Bulls Gap-Mooresburg and Church Hill-Mount Carmel-Surgoinsville.^[2]

The same population was being served by Rogersville High School and Bulls Gap High School prior to Cherokee's construction. So that these populations would still be served under the new plan, the Board of Education purchased land as equidistant from Rogersville and Bulls Gap as possible. The present site, at the intersection of Highway 66 and Highway 70 in the community of Persia.

The school was named for nearby Cherokee Lake; its mascot was derived from old Rogersville High's Warriors; its colors were taken from the orange-and-black of old Bulls Gap High and the maroon-and-grey of old Rogersville to derive the current Red and Black Cherokee Chiefs.

Student demographics

According to a 2010 report card from the Tennessee Department of Education, approximately 67.1% of Cherokee students are considered to be "economically disadvantaged," as that term is defined by the Department.^[1] The same report indicates that, for 2010, the student population of Cherokee was distributed as follows:

Race	Number	Percentage
White	1,141	96.2 %
African American	27	2.3%
Hispanic	16	1.3%
Native American/Alaskan	1	0.1%

Academics

According to information from 2010 TN report card published by the Tennessee Department of Education, Cherokee students averaged 18.5 on the ACT.^[1] The report also states that attendance was an all time high of 93.7% for 2010 and the graduation rate was an all time high of 88.5% in 2010. Graduation rates have increased more than 27% since 2007.

Athletics

The nickname of Cherokee's interscholastic athletic teams is the Chiefs. The school colors are red and black. Men's and women's varsity, junior varsity, and freshman teams compete in the Tennessee Secondary School Athletics Association Division I, in the following classifications^[3]:

Sport	Classification	Conference Opponents
All Sports	District 2 AAA (5A/6A Football are part of AAA. Cherokee football is 5A)	• Cocke County High School(Newport) • Seymour High School(Seymour) • South-Doyle High School(Knoxville) • Jefferson County High School (Dandridge) • Morristown East High School (Morristown) • Morristown West High School (Morristown) • Sevier County High School (Sevierville)

See also

• Bulls Gap, Tennessee
• Hawkins County, Tennessee
• Rogersville, Tennessee

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} According to the 2010 school year data from the Tennessee Department of Education
2. ^ See the history of Hawkins County Schools at the school system website.
3. ^ TSSAA Classifications

External links

• Cherokee High School official website
• Hawkins County School System official website