District Features

Beginning around 6:45 a.m. each morning, and sometimes during morning station duties at both high schools within the Jackson County School System, the phones of Ashley Ware and Kelly Loggins are going off.

Dr. Todd Chandler admits he feels like he hasn’t worked many days in his career as a chorus teacher within the Jackson County School System. For him, the leader of the choral program at East Jackson High School, teaching students and leading a top-tier performing arts program doesn’t feel like work at all. 

During the planning phases of opening a new middle school, which included splitting the staff at West Jackson Middle School, science teacher Austin Poole was asked if he would lead the middle school baseball program at the Legacy Knoll Middle School.

Chris Fowler is glad to be back inside of his classroom at Jackson County High School. With a sense of appreciation for the community he lives and works in, Fowler is back teaching U.S. History following another battle with Lymphoma, a blood cancer that affects the lymphatic system. 

The Empower College and Career Center is known for providing students with career relevant learning experiences. The new Graphic Arts Pathway is no different. This pathway, in its inaugural semester, allows students to learn various graphic design skills and how to apply them to other industries. 

The passion for nursing and the ability to help children started at a young age for Emily Fears.

This is Jeopardy! Those are the words spoken at the start of the iconic game show Jeopardy.

Sister’s Mattie Brooks and Bailey Brooks Phillips know eagle pride as well as anyone. The Brooks family has sent 14 different cousins to East Jackson.

On the first Thursday in August, while students step off the bus or unload from their family vehicles, bushy-eyed and ready to start a new school year, five new principals inside the Jackson County School System will be awaiting to greet students, and ready to lead throughout the upcoming school year.

Twenty-Three year old pilot, Hayden Dutton has been flying planes since he was sixteen.

Ascending to approximately 40,000 feet above the ground, pilot Hayden Dutton is now in the career he decided to pursue in high school. You can say it’s in his blood.