Clinch School is a public PreK-12 school in
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Hawkins County, Tennessee
Hawkins County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 56,721. Its county seat is Rogersville, Hawkins County is part of the Kingsport–Bristol–Bristol, TN- VA Metropolitan Stat ...
, with a
Sneedville postal address. of the
Hawkins County School District.
The school is on the north portion of
Clinch Mountain
Clinch Mountain is a mountain ridge in the U.S. states of Tennessee and Virginia, lying in the ridge-and-valley section of the Appalachian Mountains. From its southern terminus at Kitts Point, which lies at the intersection of Knox, Union and G ...
,
on what Gregory Leaming of ''
The Kingsport Times-News'' described as the "far side".
History
In 1980 the Hawkins County school board voted 6–1 to end Clinch School's high school component. A group of parents opposed this due to school transportation taking mountain roads, with a per direction.
[ The bus route was to go around Clinch Mountain, to the point where the duration of the trip would exceed the requirement in state law that bus rides may only be 1.5 hours long.
For the 1980–1981 school year, the high school component had closed, with the students redirected to Cherokee High. However, shortly after the start of that school year, the Clinch high school reopened and Clinch High de-consolidated from Cherokee High. Around 70 students were affected.
In 1992 a member of the parent-teacher organization of the school asked for more support from the county board of trustees, arguing the school had been "benignly neglected".][
The current Clinch School building opened in 2010. It was to be built for $9,800,000, but the district saved money, instead spending $9,550,000.
In February 2019 the school adopted a four-day school week after landslides occurred,]WBIR-TV
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article supported the change. In January 2020 it was still on a four-day school week.[ In February 2020 the board of trustees expressed support for continuing the arrangement.]
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Clinch School
Public K–12 schools in the United States
Education in Hawkins County, Tennessee
Public elementary schools in Tennessee
Public middle schools in Tennessee
Public high schools in Tennessee
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