Current and Former Member Schools

The William J. Hale School, located on McGhee Street in Maryville, was built in early 1930 with Rosenwald funds.  The school opened in 1931 and Mrs. Octavia B. Hoard was the first principal.  The Hale School replaced the T. B. Lillard School, built about 1910.  The T. B. Lillard School was named for Thomas B. Lillard, an African American and progressive businessman from Maryville.

Cameron School was established in 1928 when Pearl Jr. High was renamed in memory of Lt. Henry A. Cameron, a former school instructor of science at Pearl High School, who lost his life in the Battle of Argonne Forest, France on October 30th, 1918, two weeks before the end of World War I.  The school began serving grades 7-12 in 1955 and graduated its first senior class in 1957.  The last senior class graduated in 1971.

Opened in 1969 after the destruction of the original DuPont High School in 1967.  The first principal of the school was Mr. James Bridgeman. The school closed in 1986.

Established in 1926 as an extension of DuPont Elementary, a school built by the DuPont Nemours Company during WWI.  The first senior class graduated in 1928.  DuPont High School was built in 1930.  The first principal was C. P. Ferguson.  A lighted football field, the first in the county, was added in 1936. The school, which stood on the property which is now DuPont-Hadley Middle School, was destroyed by fire in 1967.

Goodlettsville School was organized in the fall of 1917 with classes being held in tents and a house that had been donated to the county.  The first class graduated in 1921. Closed in 1986 along with Madison High to create Hunters Lane High School.

Haynes School began as an elementary school in 1931 and was named for William Haynes, a local African American who made the land available on which the school was built.  The last senior class graduated in 1967.

The school opened in 1911 when the General Assembly enacted a law prohibiting the incarceration of juveniles (anyone under the age of eighteen) in adult penal institutions. The school was formally known as the Tennessee Reformatory for Boys.  The school was renamed Spencer Youth Center in 1971 and is more recently known as Woodland Hills Youth Development Center.

Madison High opened in 1953.  Herman DePriest was the school's first principal.  The school was closed in 1986 and consolidated with Goodlettesville High to become Hunters Lane High School.  The building now houses Madison Middle School.

Meigs School was established as a grammar school for black students in 1883. It served as a high school for 10 years beginning in 1959.  The school graduated its last senior class in 1969.

Established in 1917 and closed in 1971.

Pearl-Cohn was built in 1986 in the location where Washington Junior High School and Ford Greene School formerly stood.

Pearl School was established as a grammar school for black students in 1883. In 1897 it became Pearl High School. The school closed in 1983 with the creation of Pearl-Cohn High School. The former building now serves as the home of Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet School and belongs to the National Register of Historic Places.

Opened in 1865 and named after Civil War General Oliver O. Howard, head of the newly established Freedmen’s Bureau.  The school was incorporated into the city school system in 1873.  The school moved to its current location on South Market St. in 1954.

Organized by Dr. John L. Dillard on the top of Alpine Mountain in 1821, the school was moved off the mountain after the Civil War and named Alpine Institute. A. H. Roberts, later a Tennessee governor, taught there in the early 1890s. The school was revived in 1917 by the Board of the National Missions of the U.S.A. Presbyterian Church. The high school was turned over to Overton County in 1946.

Established in 1909 by the Christian Women's Board of Missions of the Christian Church.  In 1947, the school was sold to Overton County and has since been operated as a public county high school.  The current school building opened in 1976.

Baxter Seminary traces its origin to the 1890s when Bloomington College was established by H.C. and C.W. Coleman. In 1896, the school burned and was reopened in Red Boiling Springs as Wesleyan Memorial Academy.  In 1908, the Methodist Episcopal Church assumed responsibility for the school and moved it to Baxter where it was renamed Baxter Seminary.  The school was led by Dr. Harry L. Upperman from 1923-1957 and ultimately sold to Putnam County in 1959 to become Upperman High School.

Cookeville High School has a long history dating back to the establishment of Washington Academy in 1891.  The school was known as Central High from 1932 until 1966 and Putnam Senior High from 1966 until 1981.  The current building was constructed in 1996 on the grounds of the former Putnam Airport.

Established as Junior Military Academy in 1919 by Col. L. L. Rice. In 1922, Rice appointed Major Roy DeBerry as headmaster.  DeBerry would purchase the school in 1925 and change the name to DeBerry Academy in 1970.

Established in 2007, Highland Rim Academy is a K-12 classical Christian school.

Established around 1915.

Merged with Dixie College in 1914 and became part of Tennessee Polytechnic Institute in 1916 when Dixie College ceded its property to the state for the establishment of a new state university.

Opened in 1959 on the campus of the former Baxter Seminary and named for the school's long-time president, Dr. Harry Lee Upperman. A new building for the school was erected in 1976, which is now occupied by Cornerstone Middle School. The current school building opened at a new site in 2003.