Chattanooga School for the Arts & Sciences

The Chattanooga School for the Arts & Sciences is a K-12 magnet school in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It was opened in 1986. Its liberal-arts curriculum is based around the 'Paideia' philosophy of Mortimer Adler. The school building has been a school in several incarnations, and was once attended by Samuel L. Jackson (as Riverside High School).

Academics

The school has drawn some national attention for high test scores, a high percentage of graduates who proceed to higher education, and a somewhat coincidental similarity between the school's ethnicity percentages and the nation's ethnicity percentages. The school was also featured in Newsweek magazine about the changing nature of the first grade. Instead of following the trend of putting academic pressure on first-graders, the school, according to the article, "champions a slowed down approach to education."

Extracurricular activities

Athletics

While the school has no football team, the school athletics department has had considerable success especially in basketball, soccer and tennis. Basketball-The Boys basketball team has 6 sub state appearances ( 1991, 1998, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011) and 4 state tournament appearances, including the Finals in 1991 and 2007 along with a Semi-finals appearance in 2010 and a Quarter-finals appearance in 2011. The boys team is coached by Mark Dragoo.

The tennis team, both girls and boys, have had much success as well. The girls have 2 district championships( 2007, 2008). The boys have 3 district titles(2009, 2010, 2011),2 region titles(2010, 2011),1 sub-state title(2011),and 1 state appearance(2011) making it to the semi-finals. Individually, the tennis program has 3 state titles. Stanford Goss won a boys singles title in 2002 and the Kelly Sisters(Kayla & Ahmee)won 2 girls doubles titles from 2009-2010. Coach Jerry Pate, a long-time veteran, coaches both the girls and boys programs.

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