Top Twenty Reasons to Attend Dyersburg City Schools

1. Dyersburg Intermediate School was ranked 4th in math

value added out of 1032 intermediate schools in the state.

2. Dyersburg High School student, Sean Stapleton, is one of

only 5 National Merit Scholar Semi-finalists in West

3. Dyersburg High School has had 21 National Merit Scholar

Semi-finalists since 1974.

4. Dyersburg High School had the highest US History value

6. Dyersburg High School had 136 AP students with 169 AP

7. Dyersburg High School was one point above the state

8. Dyersburg High School competed in the state tournament

in Volleyball (3 years), Cross Country, and

9. Dyersburg High School girls track placed 2nd in the

10.Over 300 Dyersburg City School students in grades K -- 12

taking Mandarin Chinese.

11.Dyersburg Middle School had 16 students receive State

recognition and 1 student Receive Grand recognition on

12.Schools ranked 9th in math value added out of 136

14.State predicts that 15-20% of teachers will score 5 on

evaluations Dyersburg City Schools have 35% of their

teachers who scored 5's.

15.FFA received national ranking three years in a row.

Maryanna McClure won the National agscience fair with

her project. She was 1st and only national winner from

the state of Tennessee.

16.Technology available to each student in grades Pre -- K

through 5th grade,available to every other student in

grades 6 through 12th.

17.ACT college readiness is at 24% for system and state is

at 15%. Dyersburg is 8th highest in state.

18.DCS will have 2 of only 20 reward schools outside of

Shelby Co. in all of TN, if the waiver is granted.

19.Vanessa Anderson named Tech Teacher of the Year for the

state of Tennessee.

20.Full-time Certified PE teachers, librarians, music

teachers, art teachers in every school.