Clarksville-Montgomery County School System, Tennessee
| Clarksville-Montgomery County School System |
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| Clarksville, Tennessee |
| District details |
| Superintendent: Jean Luna-Vedder (director of schools) |
| # of school board members: 7 |
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The Clarksville-Montgomery County School System is a school district in Tennessee.
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Superintendent
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In the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System, the appointed leader of the school district has the title of director of schools instead of superintendent. Jean Luna-Vedder is the director of schools for the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System. She was appointed on May 10, 2022 and started serving on July 1, 2022. Her previous experience includes working as the Chief of Student Readiness for the Tennessee State Department of Education.[1]
Past superintendents
- Angela Huff was appointed interim Director of Schools on June 8, 2021 and served until her successor was sworn in on July 1, 2022.[2]
- Millard House II was the director of schools of the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System from May 2017 until his resignation in May 2021. House's previous career experience includes working as the chief operating officer of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, a physical education teacher, and an executive consultant with IH Consulting.[3][4] Following his term as superintendent of CMCSS, House served as superintendent of Houston Independent School District from May 2021 until May 2023, when the Texas Education Agency took control of the district. In June 2023, House was announced as the incoming CEO[5] of Prince George's County Public Schools.[6]
- B.J. Worthington was the director of schools of the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System from 2012 to 2017.[7] Worthington's previous career experience included working as the district's chief academic officer, a principal, and a teacher.[8]
School board
The Clarksville-Montgomery County School System school board consists of seven members elected by district to four-year terms.[9]
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This officeholder information was last updated on May 14, 2024. Please contact us with any updates. | |
Elections
Members of the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System school board are elected to four-year terms. Three or four seats are up for election on a staggered basis every even-numbered year in August.
Three seats on the board were up for general election on August 1, 2024. A primary was scheduled for March 5, 2024.
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Public participation in board meetings
The Clarksville-Montgomery County School System school board maintains the following policy on public testimony during board meetings:[10]
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Requests to address the School Board during the “Public Conversation or Comments” portion of the meeting agenda must be provided in writing with all required information to the Board of Education Secretary at least 48 hours prior to the date of the formal meeting at which you wish to speak. Public comment time periods will be allotted at the beginning of each formal board meeting at which a vote will be taken. There will not be public comments before a study session as there are no votes taken by the Board and there are no actionable items on these agendas. Also, there will not be public comments at a special voting/formal session to address a teacher discipline or termination. Your request will be referred to the School Board Attorney for evaluation and review. After your timely submission of the completed written request to address the School Board, and unless you are notified to the contrary, you will be placed on the “Public Conversation” portion of the agenda, subject to the following rules: 1. Time limit of any single presentation shall not exceed five (5) minutes. 2. Subject matter must be limited to issues related to education or the business of the Board, except as set forth below. 3. The Board will not allow sexually explicit language, threats, loud and disruptive comments, or excessive noise (to include jeers, shouts, and boisterous applause or demonstrations, as well as music, sound effects and other noise from electronic devices) from the floor. Disruptive persons will be asked to leave the meeting room. In accordance with Tennessee Code Annotated § 39-17-306, any person who acts to prevent, obstruct, or interfere with any lawful meeting of the CMCSS School Board by physical action or verbal utterance shall be warned by the Chair, Vice Chair or Board Attorney to discontinue those actions. Law enforcement may lawfully remove any person from the meeting who refuses to cease his or her acts of preventing, obstructing, or interfering with any such meeting. 4. The presiding Board officer or the Board Attorney may interrupt or terminate a presentation when its length has exceeded the five (5)-minute time limit, or when the presentation is obscene, threatening, sexually explicit, unduly repetitive, or irrelevant to the business before the School Board. Further, please be advised that young children are often present in-person at CMCSS Board meetings and/or are observing the meetings via the internet and/or audio or video recording. 5. The presiding Board officer or the Board Attorney may limit the total number of individuals recognized to speak on any side of any given issue to three (3) individuals. The board shall take all practicable steps to ensure that opposing viewpoints, if any, are represented fairly. The total length of public presentations to be made at any given School Board meeting may also be limited at the discretion of the presiding Board officer or the Board Attorney not to exceed thirty (30) minutes in the aggregate. 6. The presentation, or an outline of the presentation, and its relationship to the business of the School Board must be provided in writing along with the request form. 7. No person will present orally or discuss at an open meeting of the School Board complaints against individual employees of the School District on matters involving disciplinary action against employees or students until all administrative requirements relating to employee grievances or student disciplinary matters have been followed. 8. This process does not apply to public hearings (to include zoning hearings and budget hearings) for which a sign-up sheet will be available on location. Please note: The Board recognizes the value of public comment on the educational issues and the importance of involving members of the public in its meetings. The Board requires that such participants be either residents of Montgomery County, employees of the School District, students, parents/guardians of a CMCSS student, or the designee of such residents. Any representative of a firm eligible to bid on materials or services solicited by the board will also be entitled to express an opinion regarding business of the school system. No unsolicited sales pitches or presentations may be made during the public comment. To permit fair and orderly expression of such comment, the Board will provide a period not to exceed thirty minutes during which visitors may make formal presentations. Public comment opportunities are available for the Board to hear from interested members of the community concerning the business of the Board. Board members and/or the Director of Schools do not provide responses or engage in direct conversation during public comment. If speakers wish to receive an answer to a specific question, inquiries should be directed to the appropriate district office. Before addressing the Board, individuals are urged to seek a solution to their concerns through the proper staff and administrative channels. CMCSS School Board meetings, including public comments and conversation may be recorded, by audio and video and such recordings may be viewed from CMCSS websites or on the internet and may be rebroadcast or available for viewing by the public, and please be advised that members of the viewing public may often include young children. Such audio and video recordings are not the official record or minutes of the CMCSS Board meeting and CMCSS may elect not to retain or broadcast such recordings. Please click here to download the request form or you can email your request to the Board of Education Secretary at [email protected] with the information below. Incomplete requests will not be considered.
Approved by the CMCSS School Board on September 14, 2021; modified on June 20, 2023, November 21, 2023.[11] |
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District map
Budget
The following statistics were published by the National Center for Education Statistics, which is a part of the U.S. Department of Education.[12]
| SOURCE | AMOUNT | AMOUNT PER STUDENT | PERCENT |
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| Federal: | $49,610,000 | $1,362 | 13% |
| Local: | $132,349,000 | $3,633 | 34% |
| State: | $205,122,000 | $5,631 | 53% |
| Total: | $387,081,000 | $10,627 |
| TYPE | AMOUNT | AMOUNT PER STUDENT | PERCENT |
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| Total Expenditures: | $381,718,000 | $10,479 | |
| Total Current Expenditures: | $351,414,000 | $9,647 | |
| Instructional Expenditures: | $212,354,000 | $5,829 | 56% |
| Student and Staff Support: | $47,125,000 | $1,293 | 12% |
| Administration: | $39,469,000 | $1,083 | 10% |
| Operations, Food Service, Other: | $52,466,000 | $1,440 | 14% |
| Total Capital Outlay: | $23,271,000 | $638 | |
| Construction: | $13,634,000 | $374 | |
| Total Non El-Sec Education & Other: | $244,000 | $6 | |
| Interest on Debt: | $6,517,000 | $178 |
Teacher salaries
The following salary information was pulled from the district's teacher salary schedule. A salary schedule is a list of expected compensations based on variables such as position, years employed, and education level. It may not reflect actual teacher salaries in the district.
| Year | Minimum | Maximum |
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| 2023-2024[13] | $46,043 | $87,986 |
| 2020-2021[14] | $40,824 | $75,393 |
Academic performance
Each year, state and local education agencies use tests and other standards to assess student proficiency. Although the data below was published by the U.S. Department of Education, proficiency measurements are established by the states. As a result, proficiency levels are not comparable between different states and year-over-year proficiency levels within a district may not be comparable because states may change their proficiency measurements.[15]
The following table shows the percentage of district students who scored at or above the proficiency level each school year:
| School year | All (%) | Asian/Pacific Islander (%) | Black (%) | Hispanic (%) | Native American (%) | Two or More Races (%) | White (%) |
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| 2020-2021 | 25 | 45 | 13 | 21 | 25-29 | 33 | |
| 2018-2019 | 45 | 65 | 32 | 44 | 50-54 | 52 | |
| 2017-2018 | 42 | 61 | 27 | 39 | 45-49 | 50 | |
| 2016-2017 | 42 | 61 | 28 | 38 | 45-49 | 50 | |
| 2015-2016 | 14 | 25-29 | 8 | 10-14 | <=20 | 17 | |
| 2014-2015 | 65 | 79 | 52 | 65 | 60-64 | 71 | |
| 2013-2014 | 52 | 66 | 39 | 49 | 50-54 | 59 | |
| 2012-2013 | 53 | 72 | 40 | 51 | 55-59 | 59 | |
| 2011-2012 | 50 | 66 | 36 | 47 | 50-54 | 57 | |
| 2010-2011 | 42 | 62 | 28 | 39 | 35-39 | 49 |
The following table shows the percentage of district students who scored at or above the proficiency level each school year:
| School year | All (%) | Asian/Pacific Islander (%) | Black (%) | Hispanic (%) | Native American (%) | Two or More Races (%) | White (%) |
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| 2020-2021 | 31 | 44 | 20 | 28 | 30-34 | 38 | |
| 2018-2019 | 41 | 54 | 28 | 39 | 45-49 | 48 | |
| 2017-2018 | 41 | 55 | 29 | 39 | 45-49 | 48 | |
| 2016-2017 | 42 | 55 | 30 | 39 | 45-49 | 49 | |
| 2015-2016 | 42 | 50-54 | 31 | 45-49 | 40-59 | 47 | |
| 2014-2015 | 58 | 71 | 44 | 55 | 55-59 | 64 | |
| 2013-2014 | 56 | 71 | 42 | 54 | 55-59 | 62 | |
| 2012-2013 | 57 | 69 | 42 | 53 | 55-59 | 63 | |
| 2011-2012 | 56 | 69 | 42 | 55 | 45-49 | 63 | |
| 2010-2011 | 53 | 64 | 39 | 51 | 40-44 | 59 |
The following table shows the graduation rate of district students each school year:
| School year | All (%) | Asian/Pacific Islander (%) | Black (%) | Hispanic (%) | Native American (%) | Two or More Races (%) | White (%) |
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| 2019-2020 | 94 | >=95 | 93 | 95 | >=80 | 95 | |
| 2018-2019 | 94 | >=95 | 94 | 90-94 | >=80 | 95 | |
| 2017-2018 | 94 | >=95 | 93 | >=95 | >=80 | 95 | |
| 2016-2017 | 95 | >=95 | 95 | 90-94 | >=80 | 95 | |
| 2015-2016 | 95 | >=95 | 94 | 90-94 | >=80 | 95 | |
| 2014-2015 | 97 | >=95 | 96 | >=95 | >=80 | 97 | |
| 2013-2014 | 93 | >=90 | 93 | 90-94 | >=50 | 94 | |
| 2012-2013 | 94 | >=95 | 94 | >=95 | >=80 | 94 | |
| 2011-2012 | 95 | >=95 | 93 | >=95 | >=80 | 96 | |
| 2010-2011 | 94 | >=95 | 91 | 90-94 | >=50 | 95 |
Students
| Year | Enrollment | Year-to-year change (%) |
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| 2022-2023 | 38,773 | 2.8 |
| 2021-2022 | 37,680 | 3.3 |
| 2020-2021 | 36,426 | -0.4 |
| 2019-2020 | 36,582 | 3.3 |
| 2018-2019 | 35,366 | 1.5 |
| 2017-2018 | 34,841 | 3.7 |
| 2016-2017 | 33,541 | 2.8 |
| 2015-2016 | 32,605 | 1.7 |
| 2014-2015 | 32,056 | 2.4 |
| 2013-2014 | 31,271 | 2.1 |
| 2012-2013 | 30,622 | 0.0 |
| 2011-2012 | 30,614 | 2.7 |
| 2010-2011 | 29,780 | 2.2 |
| 2009-2010 | 29,138 | 1.4 |
| 2008-2009 | 28,737 | 0.8 |
| 2007-2008 | 28,505 | 1.9 |
| 2006-2007 | 27,963 | 3.4 |
| 2005-2006 | 27,008 | 4.1 |
| 2004-2005 | 25,899 | 3.8 |
| 2003-2004 | 24,924 | 1.4 |
| 2002-2003 | 24,578 | 1.3 |
| 2001-2002 | 24,256 | 3.8 |
| 2000-2001 | 23,339 | -1.6 |
| 1999-2000 | 23,719 | 0.0 |
| RACE | Clarksville-Montgomery County School System (%) | Tennessee K-12 STUDENTS (%) |
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| American Indian/Alaska Native | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| Asian or Asian/Pacific Islander | 1.8 | 2.0 |
| Black | 24.6 | 20.7 |
| Hispanic | 15.9 | 13.9 |
| Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 0.1 |
| Two or More Races | 10.0 | 4.5 |
| White | 46.9 | 58.7 |
Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.
Staff
As of the 2022-2023 school year, Clarksville-Montgomery County School System had 2,249.00 full-time classroom teachers. The student-teacher ratio was 17.24.
| TYPE | NUMBER OF TEACHERS |
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| Prekindergarten: | 44.00 |
| Kindergarten: | 146.00 |
| Elementary: | 1,459.17 |
| Secondary: | 599.83 |
| Total: | 2,249.00 |
Clarksville-Montgomery County School System employed 1.00 district administrators and 141.00 school administrators as of the 2022-2023 school year.
| TYPE | NUMBER OF ADMINISTRATORS |
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| District Administrators: | 1.00 |
| District Administrative Support: | 93.00 |
| School Administrators: | 141.00 |
| School Administrative Support: | 241.00 |
| TYPE | NUMBER OF OTHER STAFF |
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| Instructional Aides: | 693.00 |
| Instruc. Coordinators & Supervisors: | 81.50 |
| Total Guidance Counselors: | 110.50 |
| Elementary Guidance Counselors: | 0.00 |
| Secondary Guidance Counselors: | 0.00 |
| Librarians/Media Specialists: | 84.00 |
| Library/Media Support: | 40.00 |
| Student Support Services: | 199.50 |
| Other Support Services: | 1,007.00 |
Schools
Contact information
Clarksville-Montgomery County School System
621 Gracey Ave.
Clarksville, TN 37040
Phone: 931-648-5600
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See also
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External links
- Search Google News for this topic
- Clarksville-Montgomery County School System
- Montgomery County Education Association
- Tennessee Department of Education
- Tennessee School Boards Association
Footnotes
- ↑ Clarksville Now, "Board selects next director of Clarksville-Montgomery County Schools: Jean Luna-Vedder," accessed September 18, 2023
- ↑ Clarksville-Montgomery County School System, "School Board Approves Dr. Angela Huff as CMCSS Interim Director of Schools," accessed September 18, 2023
- ↑ The Leaf Chronicle, "House selected as new Montgomery County schools director," May 23, 2017
- ↑ Leaf Chronicle, "Millard House II announces sudden resignation as leader of Clarksville's public school system," accessed September 18, 2023
- ↑ In PGCPS, the superintendent is given the title CEO
- ↑ Houston Public Media, "Ex-Houston ISD superintendent Millard House II lands similar job in Washington D.C. area," accessed September 18, 2023
- ↑ The Leaf Chronicle, "Clarksville schools director BJ Worthington retiring," December 7, 2016
- ↑ Clarksville-Montgomery County School System, "School Board Selects Worthington as Next Director of Schools," accessed April 15, 2014
- ↑ Clarksville-Montgomery County School System, "CMCSS School Board Members," accessed April 15, 2014
- ↑ Clarksville-Montgomery County School System, "Public Participation at Board Meetings," accessed January 23, 2024
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ National Center for Education Statistics, "Elementary/Secondary Information System," accessed June 17, 2024
- ↑ Clarksville-Montgomery County School System, "Certified Salary Schedule," accessed February 2, 2024
- ↑ Clarksville-Montgomery County School System, "Certified Salary," accessed May 3, 2021
- ↑ U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC: EDFacts, "State Assessments in Reading/Language Arts and Mathematics- School Year 2018-19 EDFacts Data Documentation," accessed February 25, 2021
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