![]() Rick Madison, chief operating officer for the YMCA of Metropolitan Chattanooga, said the school district has expressed interest in the North River YMCA property on Hixson Pike. Lauren White, who's got a kindergartener and a first-grader at Alpine Crest, doesn't want to see the school go away, either. It may be cheaper, but it's not better for the kids." ![]() "Bad idea," said Annette Stolpmann, who's got two children in Alpine Crest and two middle-schoolers who recently graduated. The plan for an 1,100-student elementary school on Hixson Pike wasn't popular with parents who lined up in their vehicles up Monday afternoon to retrieve kids from Alpine Crest Elementary, which has 301 students and is nestled in a residential area in the northeast corner of Red Bank. Large schools can better cater to students' needs, he said, since they're more likely to have full-time physical education and music teachers in class every day as opposed to small schools where such classes are held less frequently. "It's just a move to try to contain operating costs." "It's just far more efficient," Waters said. The three schools to be replaced average 55 years old. School district officials also like large elementary schools, Waters said, since they're more efficient to staff and heat and cool. "If it ceases to be used for a public school, then it would revert to the DuPont heirs," he said. One reason the district wants to build a school on the 13-acre YMCA property, Waters said, is that it's right next door to DuPont Elementary School, which sits on 12 acres that the DuPont family gave to the school district - on the condition that it remain a school in perpetuity. School officials contemplate building an 1,100-student elementary school on Hixson Pike as part of the district's 2011 school facility plan. "If we do enter into negotiations, the price of the pool is not a consideration." "It was something that we needed to get out of the way, if we ever needed to purchase the property," Waters said. Getting the city out of the picture should save the school district about $1 million, if it buys the North River YMCA, Assistant Superintendent Gary Waters said. ![]() That's because, under a recent settlement over unpaid liquor taxes, the city of Chattanooga released its interest in the indoor swimming pool it built a decade ago at the North River YMCA. They also placed a time capsule in front of the monument, which is to be opened in the year 2028.The Hamilton County School District moved closer to its long-range goal to shut down Alpine Crest, DuPont and Rivermont elementary schools and replace them with a new, supersized elementary school where the Hixson Pike YMCA now stands. Fifth-grade students and parents donated a brick monument that has a sculpture of the old Deep River School. ![]() The old school, gym, and auditorium were demolished and were replaced by a new facility. The summer of 1998 brought major changes to Deep River School. Deep River Elementary School consists of grades kindergarten through fifth grade. In 1992, Lee County Schools reorganized its grade configuration to elementary (K-5), middle school (6-8), and high school (9-12). In 1977, Lee County consolidated its high schools Deep River School once again became an elementary (K-6) school. Roy Ledden, Miss Nanie Leach of Sanford, Mr. Since the opening of Deep River, there have been 14 principals. Truby Proctor Miss Flora Johnson, and Mrs. Rex Kelly, Miss Zelma Wicker, who later became Mrs. ![]() The first elementary teachers were: Miss Ernestine Matthews, Mrs. The entire high school curriculum was taught by Mr. In 1930 the tenth grade was added and in 1931, the eleventh year completed what was the first full high school curriculum in those days.ĭeep River had its first graduation on April 29, 1932. Harward became principal in 1929, at which time the eighth and ninth grades were added. The school included only grades one through seven until Mr. Mag Bridges, whose great-great-grandchildren attended Deep River School. The land on which the school was built was bought from Mrs. The first students came from several one and two-room schools in the surrounding area. In 1924, a new school was opened in the Deep River Community. Deep River Elementary School is located on an approximately 65-acre site in a rural area on Deep River Road, commonly known as Old US 1, ten miles northwest of Sanford. ![]()
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