Elizabethton City Schools reports top-20 state ranking, RCAP facility nearing completion and new community programs
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District staff told the board Elizabethton ranks 20th of 147 Tennessee districts on combined ELA/math assessments, the RCAP athletic facility is largely complete and the district plans a community-supported wrestling program mirroring its swim club.
Elizabethton City Schools officials reported that the district ranked 20th out of 147 Tennessee school districts on combined English/language arts and math accountability tests and described progress on the Dave Bridal Center for Athletic Performance (RCAP) and new community programs.
The information was presented at the board—s August meeting by district staff. Dr. Newman reviewed predictive assessment results from MasteryConnect and state TCAP data; Mr. Van Huss gave a facilities and community-program update.
Dr. Newman said the district used MasteryConnect checkpoints to predict TCAP outcomes and highlighted the district—s performance trend. "Seventy point two percent of our students, score proficient on English too," she said when summarizing high school ELA results. She noted the district—s overall combined ranking: "Out of a 147 districts in the state, we are ranked at the twentieth." Dr. Newman also said growth data is embargoed and the district will share that material once the embargo lifts.
Mr. Van Huss provided an update on the RCAP construction timeline and on athletic and community programming. He told the board "the majority of the facility will be finished by September 1," while noting the gym floor installation may be delayed because the wood must reach a specified moisture content. He said turf installation and asphalt work were scheduled and that equipment ordered for the space should arrive around September. He added the athletic department had received more than $50,000 in donations for equipment.
Van Huss also described plans to expand community-based offerings modeled on the Typhoon Swim Club. "Our intention is to start" a community wrestling program, he said, and he stressed the program would be self-supporting: "the funds they generate from the participants will go to pay for the instructors." The board did not take a vote on establishing the wrestling program; Van Huss presented it as an upcoming initiative to be developed administratively.
Board members and staff also recognized student achievements earlier in the meeting, including T.A. Duggar Middle School and Elizabethton High School track state qualifiers and a naval cadet corps delegation that attended summer leadership programs; those recognitions were ceremonial and were presented before the regular agenda.
The district will distribute the presentation slides and a fuller PowerPoint with embargoed growth data to board members when allowed.
