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UDA NATIONAL HS DANCE CHAMPIONSHPS
Arlington HS Dance Teams Take Home Trophies
AHS JV Named Junior
Grand Champions;
Varsity Places in Top 3
By Jennifer Jones, AHS
Dance Program Advisor
Photo courtesy of AHS Dance
Top: JV team with their hip hop trophy and banner. Pictured with them is their
coach, Lauren Byrd
Photo courtesy of AHS Dance
Bottom: Varsity team with their trophy. Pictured with them is their coach, Sara
Beahm.
April 2014
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Over the weekend of March
7th-9th, the Arlington High
School Dance Program traveled
to Orlando, Florida to compete
in the NDA Natio nal
Championship.
The Varsity team, under the
direction of first year coach
Sara Beahm, competed in the
Medium Varsity Hip Hop
Division and the Medium
Varsity Pom Division. The
Junior Varsity team, coached by
Lauren Byrd, competed in JV
Pom and JV Hip Hop—their
first year to complete in two
divisions.
The Varsity team's overall
scores for their two routines
earned them the Third Place
Varsity Grand Champions out
of all the competition. JV's
overall scores for their two
routines landed them the title of
First Place Junior Grand
Champions out of all the
competition.
Of the four routines
performed, three of them
brought home first place
trophies and the fourth routine
was only six hundredths of a
point away from first place in
one of the closest scorings
ever. The teams also received
several specialty awards that are
awarded specifically by the
judges' vote. For a complete list
of awards, see page 16.
Ready to (En-)Roll:
Arlington and Lakeland Municipal
School Systems Hold Early
Enrollment Nights in Preparation for
2014-15 School Year
By Terry Louderback
Staff Photo
Arlington Elementary School Second Grade
teachers DeQuala Garrett (left) and Carol
Harrison (right) check registration forms at
Early Enrollment Night.
As Arlington and Lakeland move ever closer to the
first day of school on August 4 , one of the biggest
unknowns has been exactly
how many students will
enroll? With funding based
on average daily attendance
(or ADA) and enrollment
numbers, staffing and
course decisions also rely
on that data.
Numbers reported by
Arlington Community
Schools Superintendent
Tammy Mason at the
March 25 Board Meeting,
reveal that Arlington Elementary, Donelson Elemen-
tary, and Arlington Middle
had 81%, 87%, and 90% of
the school enrollment totals
projected by Southern Educational Strategies (SES) in
its feasibility study.
Projected numbers from
SES for the three schools
are: Donelson ES 583,
Arlington ES 893, and
Arlington Middle 1023.
Arlington High School,
which has the greatest number of non-resident students
currently attending, was at
70% or 1306 of the 1872
students projected by SES.
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