David Brainerd Christian School was a Christian

Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...

 school located in Chattanooga, Tennessee

Chattanooga, Tennessee

Chattanooga is the fourth-largest city in the US state of Tennessee , with a population of 169,887. It is the seat of Hamilton County...

. The school was named for the missionary named David Brainerd

David Brainerd

David Brainerd was an American missionary to the Native Americans who had a particularly fruitful ministry among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey. During his short life he was beset by many difficulties...

. DBCS was established to meet the needs of students of Brainerd Baptist School, a Chattanooga elementary school

Elementary school

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. The campus consists of one middle

Middle school

Middle School and Junior High School are levels of schooling between elementary and high schools. Most school systems use one term or the other, not both. The terms are not interchangeable...

 and a high school

High school

High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....

 building, gymnasium, football field and baseball and softball fields.

DBCS was accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools is one of the six regional accreditation organizations recognized by the United States Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation...

.

The David Brainerd mascot was the Wildcat

Wildcat

Wildcat is a small felid native to Europe, the western part of Asia, and Africa.-Animals:Wildcat may also refer to members of the genus Lynx:...

.

History

The original middle school building was bought from the bankrupt Hamilton Christian School. The high school building and gymnasium were later built. The school closed its doors on June 9, 2009 due to low enrollment. And a Subprime loan of over $4 Million.

Athletics

David Brainerd's sports teams included:

• Baseball
  Baseball
  Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
  
   (Middle and High)
• Softball
  Softball
  Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
  
   (Middle and High)
• Soccer (Middle and High)
• Golf
  Golf
  Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
  
   (Middle and High)
• Tennis
  Tennis
  Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
  
   (Middle School)
• Basketball
  Basketball
  Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
  
   (Middle and High, Men's and Women's)
• Football
  American football
  American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
  
   (Middle and High)
• Fencing
  Fencing
  Fencing, which is also known as modern fencing to distinguish it from historical fencing, is a family of combat sports using bladed weapons.Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games...
  
   (Middle and High)
• Cheerleading
  Cheerleading
  Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
  
   (Middle and High)
• Swimming
  Swimming (sport)
  Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
  
   (Middle School)
• Bowling ( High School)

During the 2007-2008 school year, DBCS expanded its cross country

Cross country running

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 program, adding middle school cross country, introducing track and field

Track and field

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 to its student body.

Region A

DBCS competed in Division 2, Region A of the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association

Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association

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 (TSSAA).

Competing Schools

• Bishop Byrne High School (Memphis, Tennessee)
  Bishop Byrne High School (Memphis, Tennessee)
  Bishop Byrne High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Memphis, Tennessee. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Memphis.-Background:...
  
  
• Davidson Academy
  Davidson Academy
  For the Davidson Academy in Nevada, see Davidson Academy of Nevada.Davidson Academy is a private Christian school located in Nashville, Tennessee. It has students ranging from K-3 to 12th grade.-History:...
  
   (Nashville)
• First Assembly Christian School
  First Assembly Christian School
  First Assembly Christian school is a college preparatory school located in the Cordova section of Memphis, Tennessee. FACS was founded in 1972; programs for kindergarten through Grade 8 began in 1972 and grades 9-12 were added in 1975. The school is fully accredited by the Southern Association of...
  
   (Cordova)
• Kings Academy (Seymour)
• Lighthouse Christian (Millington)
• Memphis Catholic High School
  Memphis Catholic High School
  Memphis Catholic High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Memphis, Tennessee. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Memphis.-Background:Memphis Catholic was established in 1922, consolidating several smaller, parish-run high schools...
  
   (Memphis, Tennessee)
• Tipton Rosemark Academy (Millington)
• Rossville Christian
• Southern Baptist Educational Center
  Southern Baptist Educational Center
  Southern Baptist Educational Center is a college preparatory school located in Southaven, Mississippi. SBEC was founded by a group of Baptist ministers looking to establish a school in the Whitehaven section of Memphis, Tennessee, in 1972. Programs for kindergarten through Grade 8 began in 1973,...
  
   (Southaven, Mississippi)
• St. Andrews (Sewanee)
• St. George's
  St. George's Independent Schools
  St. George's Independent School was founded in 1959 as St. George's Episcopal School and now has campuses in Collierville, Germantown, and Memphis, Tennessee.-History:...
  
  (Collierville)