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Powell High School (Tennessee)

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School type
  
public

School district
  
Principal
  
Dr. Chad Smith

District
  
Knox County Schools

Mascot
  
Panthers

Established
  
1948

NCES School ID
  
470222000755

Phone
  
+1 865-938-2171

Founded
  
1948

Powell High School (Tennessee)

Motto
  
Pride. Honor. Success.(PHS)

Address
  
2136 W Emory Rd, Powell, TN 37849, USA

Profiles

Powell High School is a public high school located in Powell, Tennessee, just north of Knoxville. It is part of the Knox County Schools.

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The first high school in Powell was established in 1874 and was called Perkins High School. In 1916, it was renamed for Columbus Powell, the prominent person for whom the Powell Railroad Depot had been named earlier. The current school was established in 1948. Its most recent renovation was completed in 1985.

The principal is Chad Smith. Assistant principals are Jan Deaderick, Madeline Ferguson, and Amos Whitehead.

Facilities

The school has a total of 45 classrooms along with a football stadium, field and track, softball field, baseball field, football practice field, basketball gymnasium, and the Powell High Sports Complex. Due to the recent rezoning in the Knox County School system the school is now over-capacity and has 11 teachers without classrooms.

Athletics

Powell High School athletic teams are members of and are sanctioned by the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association.

Powell High School went to State in football in 2011 and the semi finals in 2012.

The 2008-2009 & 2010-2011 Powell Baseball team finished in first place in the Tennessee AAA District 3.

Student Driver Awareness Campaign

Beginning in 2009, the Powell High School Teen Driver Awareness Program has existed to raise awareness of the unusually high rate of teenaged automobile fatalities of current and recently graduated students of Powell High School. The program seeks to educate students to the need for seatbelt use, occasionally rewarding students caught using their seat belts on campus with gift certificates to local merchants. The Rural Metro Fire Department, Knox County Sheriffs Office and the Knoxville Volunteer Rescue Squad stage an annual demonstration of the potential effects of a fatal vehicle accident, utilizing students from the Powell High School Drama Department as mock victims. In the four years of the program, teen driver fatalities at the school are down 75%.

Notable alumni

  • John Bruhin - NFL player
  • John Cooper - ESPN college football analyst and member of the College Football Hall of Fame
  • Daryle Smith - NFL player
  • Lee Smith - NFL player
  • References

    Powell High School (Tennessee) Wikipedia


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