

Two DeKalb West School students finished in the Top 10 of a recent math competition at Tennessee Tech University. Leyton Scarbrough placed fourth out of 148 eighth-grade students while Kaitlyn Swearinger placed eighth out of 140 seventh graders.
Four students from each of the sixth, seventh and eighth grades at DWS traveled to the TTU Middle/High School Math Competition with eighth-grade math teacher Dwayne Blair on April 7. Representing DeKalb West School from the sixth grade were Gabriel Blair, Josh Floyd, Tori Harbaugh, and Kaden Mullinax; from the seventh grade—Swearinger, Porter Hancock, Autumn Crook and Sophie Desimone; from the eighth grade—Scarbrough, Ethan Brown, Jesse Foutch and Ben Driver.