McGavock High School

McGavock High School
Address
3150 McGavock Pike Nashville, Tennessee 37214 United States
Information
Type	Public high school
Established	1971
School district	Metro Nashville Public Schools
Principal	Robbin Wall
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	2410^[1]
Mascot	Raider
Information	615-885-8850
Website	mcgavockhs.mnps.org

McGavock High School (commonly McGavock or Big Mac) is a public high school located in Nashville, Tennessee. The school is very notable for its strong band program, having won the state championship 24 times: 1972-1979, 1982, 1987-1991, 1993-1994, 1997-2000, 2002-2005.^[2] This includes being grand champion at the annual Contest of Champions 12 times, more than any other high school since the contest began in 1962.^[2]

History

McGavock Comprehensive High School opened in 1971. It initially served students in grades ten through twelve who had previously attended Cameron, Donelson and Two Rivers high schools. McGavock added ninth grade in 1978.

McGavock is a part of the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools system. It sits on a part of the McGavock plantation that was purchased by Metro Parks in 1968 for $68,000. The land is still the property of the park service. The school was named for the antebellum Two Rivers mansion built by David H. McGavock.

McGavock was the first truly comprehensive high school built in Nashville. Planning for the school took place during the administration of Superintendent Dr. John Harris. Dr. James Burns, the resident consultant for secondary development for Metro-Nashville Public Schools, developed a structure that would serve as a model for other comprehensive high schools.

A leadership team, consisting of Chester LaFever, Executive Principal, Charles Hailey, Coordinator of Program and Staff Development, and Charles Adwell, Coordinator for Vocational and Technical Education, was formed in the fall of 1970. The team incorporated many comprehensive programs including theater, horticulture, library learning center, astronomy, music and 23 vocational labs. McGavock was the first high school in Nashville that combined the academic program with extensive vocational training.

Facilities

McGavock is the largest high school in Tennessee, with a little under 500,000 sq. feet.McGavock has four softball fields, a baseball diamond, six tennis courts, a football stadium and a track. The 14-acre building houses 82 classrooms, 14 science labs, four family and consumer science labs, nine vocational shop/classroom areas, seven business education labs, two gymnasiums, two cafeterias, a 586=-eat auditorium, and formerly a two-story library(currently a one story on the second floor) with fiction, audio-visuals, materials and equipment on one level, and non-fiction and computers on the other. It has a green room, a planetarium, a computer and technical education (CTE) lab equipped with 60 computers and a CTE presentation room equipped with state-of-the-art projection capabilities.

Marching band

The McGavock High School Marching Band is a 24-time State Champion of the Contest of Champions competition held in Murfreesboro at the MTSU stadium annually. The Director of Bands is John David Hazlett. John Womack is the Associate Director of Bands. The band has a long tradition of excellence and is known as the long blue line. The marching band design staff includes John David Hazlett music arranger and composer, Jason Palmer visual designer, Jason Palmer percussion arranger, Zack Stewart percussion coordinator. Their marching band uniforms were used in the music video for Taylor Swift's You Belong With Me.

Winner of internationally acclaimed John Philip Sousa Foundation Sudler Shield Award 1994 Bands of America Southeastern Regional Champions, Georgia Dome, Atlanta, Georgia 1995, 1996 First place awards at numerous competitions, including twelve-time Grand Champion at M.T.S.U. Contest of Champions 1972, 1982, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 Finalist band in Bands of America Grand National Championships in 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990

Southern Regional Grand Champions in Bands of America Southern Regional Championships - 1990

Hundreds of Superior ratings in marching and concert competitions and festivals

Representatives of Nashville and Tennessee at:

Tournament of Roses Parade - Pasadena, California 1979
Orange Bowl Parade - Miami, Florida 1972, 1994
Statue of Liberty Re-dedication - New York, New York 1986
Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade - New York, New York 1992
Hollywood Christmas Parade - Hollywood, California 1998
Toronto, Canada 1987
Mexico City, Mexico 1975
Nassau, Bahamas 1982, 1991, 1994, 1997
Washington, D.C. 1978, 1986
Atlanta, Georgia 1973
Orlando, Florida 1977, 1980, 1985, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2005

National television appearances include:

Tournament of Roses Parade - Pasadena, California 1979
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade - New York, New York 1992
Hollywood Christmas Parade - Hollywood, California 1998
Orange Bowl Parade - Miami, Florida 1972, 1994
Lucille Ball Anniversary Special 1978
Real People opening features 1978 - 1983
Bob Hope Christmas Special 1991
National Toyota Television Campaign 1990

Recognized by the National Band Association as one of the Ten Finest Bands in the United States

Performances at numerous civic parades and conventions throughout the United States

Notable alumni

Dwayne Johnson, Hollywood actor^[3]

References

↑ "Tennessee School Improvement Planning Process". p.15. p. 91. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
1 2 "Tennessee State Champions at COC since 1969". Retrieved 2008-12-30.
↑ "'The Rock' remembers Nashville past". Tennessean.com. August 9, 2015. Retrieved November 16, 2016.

External links

Coordinates: 36°11′09″N 86°40′42″W / 36.185827°N 86.678454°W / 36.185827; -86.678454

Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools

High Schools	Academy at Old Cockrill Antioch Cane Ridge East Nashville Glencliff Hillsboro Hillwood Hume-Fogg Hunters Lane Martin Luther King Maplewood McGavock Middle College Nashville Big Picture Nashville School of the Arts John Overton Pearl-Cohn Stratford Whites Creek

Middle Schools	Margaret Allen Antioch Apollo Bailey Bass Jere Baxter Bellevue Brick Church Cameron I.T. Creswell Croft Donelson DuPont Hadley DuPont Tyler John Early East Nashville Ewing Park Goodlettsville Gra-Mar Haynes Head H.G. Hill Joelton J.F. Kennedy KIPP Litton Madison Thurgood Marshall McKissack McMurray Meigs Moore Neely's Bend Rose Park Two Rivers Martha Vaught West End William Henry Oliver Wright

Elementary Schools	Amqui Bellshire Binkley Brookmeade Buena Vista Caldwell Carter-Lawrence Cane Ridge Chadwell Charlotte Park Cockrill Cole Hattie Cotton Crieve Hall Cumberland Dodson DuPont Eakin Thomas Edison Fall-Hamilton Gateway Glencliff Glendale Glengarry Glenn Glenview Goodlettsville Gower Granbery Alex Green Julia Green Harpeth Valley Haywood Hermitage Hickman Cora Howe Hull-Jackson Inglewood Andrew Jackson Joelton Jones Paideia Tom Joy A.Z. Kelley Kirkpatrick Lakeview Lillard Lockeland Ruby Major Maxwell McGavock Mills Moss Mt. View Napier Neely's Bend Old Center Paragon Mills Park Avenue Pennington Percy Priest Rosebank Shayne Shwab Smithson-Craighead Smith Springs Stanford Stratton Sylvan Park Tulip Grove Tusculum Una Warner Waverly-Belmont Westmeade Whitsitt

Alternative Learning Centers	Baxter Cohn McCann

Special Education Schools	Harris-Hillman Cora Howe Murrell Johnson

Charter Elementary Schools	Drexel Preparatory East End Preparatory Explore! Community School Nashville Classical Purpose Preparatory Smithson-Craighead Academy

Charter Middle Schools	Boy's Preparatory Brick Church College Preparatory Cameron Preparatory Intrepid Preparatory KIPP Academy Nashville KIPP College Preparatory Knowledge Academy LEAD Academy LEAD Preparatory Southeast Liberty Collegiate Academy Nashville Academy of Computer Science Nashville Preparatory New Vision Academy STEM Preparatory Academy Valor Collegiate Academy

Charter High Schools	KIPP Nashville Collegiate High School LEAD Academy

Former High Schools	North High School Pearl High School Meigs High School Cameron High School Madison High School Goodletsville High School Cohn High School Litton High School Nashville Central High School Bellevue High School Donelson High School West High School Dupont High School Two Rivers High School Joelton High School Cumberland High School

Other Historical Schools	Parmer Elementary Tarbox School New Hominy School Washington Junior High Woodmont Elementary

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