Class 3A Schools Locater Map (Middle Tennessee)

Class 3A Schools for Years 2005-2009

School	Enrollment	Comment
1	Tellico Plains High School	516	Moved up from 2A
2	Polk Co. High School	525	Moved up from 2A
3	Meigs Co. High School	530	Moved up from 2A
4	Cheatham Co. Central High School	667
5	Frayser High School	667
6	Grundy Co. High School	676
7	Chester Co. High School	681
8	Pigeon Forge High School	697
9	Howard School of Academics & Tech.	701
10	Kingston High School	709
11	Marshall Co. High School	712
12	McMinn Central High School	716
13	Station Camp High School	717
14	Crockett Co. High School	734
15	Scott High School	737
16	DeKalb Co. High School	743
17	McNairy Central High School	753
18	Liberty Technology Magnet High School	765
19	Rutledge High School	780
20	Austin-East High School	781
21	Greenbrier High School	782
22	Claiborne High School	793
23	Mitchell High School	802
24	Sycamore High School	803
25	White House High School	803
26	Macon Co. High School	813
27	Jackson South Side High School	814
28	Sheffield High School	832
29	Livingston Academy	849
30	Lexington High School	850
31	Obion Co. Central High School	860
32	Covington High School	869
33	Pearl Cohn High School	869
34	Fayette Ware High School	870	School is 10-12 with 12 students in 9th grade and remainder of students in another school
35	Montgomery Central High School	874
36	Spring Hill High School	880
37	Sequoyah High School	888
38	East Ridge High School	889
39	Creek Wood High School	894
40	Dyer Co. High School	899
41	* Knoxville Catholic High School	904
42	Gibbs High School	905
43	Ripley High School	905
44	Bolivar Central High School	906
45	Carter High School	908
46	Giles Co. High School	909
47	Hillcrest High School	909
48	Haywood High School	914
49	Page High School	919	Adjusted by Board Action
50	Union Co. High School	919
51	Dyersburg High School	923
52	* David Lipscomb High School	927
53	Trezevant High School	935
54	Seymour High School	945
55	Fulton High School	956
56	Anderson Co. High School	964
57	* Notre Dame High School	977

TSSAA Board implements multiplier

The TSSAA Board of Control voted 6-3 yesterday to implement a multiplier rule, meaning all Division I non-public schools have to multiply their 2003-04 enrollment figures by 1.8 before determining where their athletic teams will be placed in the next classification period, beginning in fall 2005.

''There was a sense that something was going to be done,'' TSSAA Executive Director Ronnie Carter said. ''There's nothing magical about 1.8. What that number does is just hit where the biggest gap is.''

The multiplier will be applied to all sports, not just football. Twelve private schools, including seven in Middle Tennessee, will be directly affected.

Christ Presbyterian Academy, Davidson Academy, Donelson Christian Academy, Ezell-Harding and Franklin Road Academy — all currently Class 1A programs in the same region, Region 5 — will be bumped to 2A. It is anticipated that 10 private schools in 1A will move up statewide, while 16 will stay put.

David Lipscomb will move up from 2A, but it may benefit from a stipulation attached to the multiplier. It states no school should move up more than one class in any classification period due to the multiplier. That should keep the football Mustangs from jumping to 4A until 2009.

Lipscomb should remain 2A in all sports except football, where it will likely be 3A.

''It's a tough situation anytime you're trying to level the playing field,'' Lipscomb football Coach Glenn McCadams said. ''We had suggested all along that 1.5 be the maximum fair number for a multiplier, because that's the highest anywhere else in the nation.

''But by putting in the protection clause, I think that speaks to the fact that the board did hear our concerns. They were listening. It's just a hard thing. There's really no right or wrong.''

Goodpasture's enrollment figures indicate it will be on the bubble between 2A and 3A in football.

A handful of public schools can expect some class shuffling as well. The 2A additions will result in several schools near the cutoff line dropping to 1A. That pool of potentials includes Midstate schools Trousdale County (currently opts to play football in 3A), Richland and Westmoreland.

''Anything the TSSAA did would have benefited us,'' said Westmoreland football Coach Jackie Kelley, whose team is in the same region with Lipscomb and Goodpasture.

''I feel like it will help our football program. For many years we were with schools like Smith County and Upperman. We had the chance of winning a region championship. If we (moved to 1A) that would get us to playing some people around here that hopefully we could be more competitive with. Right now we're playing schools that are a long way away, and that affects your gate, also.''

Carter said the local 1A teams set to move up will almost certainly remain in the same football region and the same district for all other sports.

The presence of a new Midstate district in 2A should benefit local basketball squads like Martin Luther King and Hume-Fogg, whose travel would be reduced considerably.

''But it has a domino effect,'' Carter said. ''We would have to create a new Middle Tennessee district in 1A. Others will be impacted.''

Before the multiplier was passed, board member Sam Miles of Dyersburg made a motion that no multiplier rule be enacted. The motion was seconded, but voted down 7-2.

''It was really to get the discussion going and bring to light the fact that if you solve one problem, you create another,'' Miles said. ''I thought (the multiplier) ought to be qualified a little more than an arbitrary 1.8. Why not something more definitive like 1.5 or 1.75?

''But I do support the decision of the board. It was the best decision of the choices we had.''

The board passed one other motion by a 9-0 vote, which states that every school be counted in the next classification period — including schools that have enrollments smaller than 100 and have recently joined TSSAA — unless the school does not play basketball. Only three schools fit that criteria: Collegedale, Tennessee School for the Blind and Nashville School of the Arts.

The rest of the reclassification issues were left to tackle during the board's March 18 meeting in Murfreesboro and June 8-10 meetings at Paris Landing.