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I recently heard a rumor that there are plans to convert the 2 existing High Schools in Mcminn County into Middle Schools and build one big high school on Highway 30 between Athens and Etowah. Anyone else heard this? If that happened, the new school would have a student body around 2200-2300 (if you count the student bodies of Mcminn and Central). That would easily make it one of the biggest schools in the state. IMO, they would have a chance to have some good football teams because Mcminn and Central have both been strong at times. Thoughts?

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I recently heard a rumor that there are plans to convert the 2 existing High Schools in Mcminn County into Middle Schools and build one big high school on Highway 11 between Athens and Etowah. Anyone else heard this? If that happened, the new school would have a student body around 2200-2300 (if you count the student bodies of Mcminn and Central). That would easily make it one of the biggest schools in the state. IMO, they would have a chance to have some good football teams because Mcminn and Central have both been strong at times. Thoughts?

That's interesting I have not heard that yet, but it could be possible. I mean the current high schools are getting to the age where they could be replaced. Athletics at the new high would be pretty good. Football would have some good teams. Basketball would be very strong year in year out in both boys and girls. Baseball and softball would be decent to good.

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In most cases the bigger you are such as a entire county school the greater the distance you have to come to play which would hurt in most cases and not help. Look at Jefferson County, Union County, Claiborne County, Warren County and it even hurts William Blount and Heritage. There are a few exceptions but more suffer from the long distance to travel than anything. Also if I'm not mistaken Alcoa cleaned McMinn County's clock in a scrimmage the other day

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I recently heard a rumor that there are plans to convert the 2 existing High Schools in Mcminn County into Middle Schools and build one big high school on Highway 11 between Athens and Etowah. Anyone else heard this? If that happened, the new school would have a student body around 2200-2300 (if you count the student bodies of Mcminn and Central). That would easily make it one of the biggest schools in the state. IMO, they would have a chance to have some good football teams because Mcminn and Central have both been strong at times. Thoughts?

That's never been discussed by the County government and it's not going to happen.  McMinn is a big county, graphically, so busing alone wouldn't be feasible.

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I'm not sure but highway 11 doesn't run through Etowah at any point does it? So not sure about how that would affect the one school. If anything I'd go to 3 schools like Monroe county. Pretty sure they'd be in the hunt in football in 2 A or 3A how ever the logistics put the 3rd school population at.

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I'm not sure but highway 11 doesn't run through Etowah at any point does it? So not sure about how that would affect the one school. If anything I'd go to 3 schools like Monroe county. Pretty sure they'd be in the hunt in football in 2 A or 3A how ever the logistics put the 3rd school population at.

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I'm not sure but highway 11 doesn't run through Etowah at any point does it? So not sure about how that would affect the one school. If anything I'd go to 3 schools like Monroe county. Pretty sure they'd be in the hunt in football in 2 A or 3A how ever the logistics put the 3rd school population at.

Highway 11 doesn't run through Etowah... 411 does.

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