Central Community School System
Jason Fountain, Ed.D., has extensive experience in educational leadership and student-athlete academic support. Currently serving as the Superintendent for Central Community School System since July 2012, Jason has held various roles including Director of Curriculum and Instruction and Principal of Central Middle School. Prior to this, Jason was the Assistant Principal at Tanglewood Elementary from January 2009 to June 2012 and provided academic advising for student-athletes at Louisiana State University and Florida State University. Earlier roles included serving as an Academic Advisor for women's basketball, golf, and soccer at Mississippi State University and as a Graduate Assistant at Troy University. Jason began their career as a 7th Grade Math Teacher at Bay Minette Middle School from 1995 to 2002. Academically, Jason holds an Educational Doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership from the University of South Alabama, and two Bachelor's Degrees in Mathematics from Athens State University and Troy University.
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Central Community School System
The Central Community School System opened on July 1, 2007, becoming only the third new school system to be created in Louisiana in the past 100 years. The system gained ownership of four aging schools formerly within the East Baton Rouge Parish School System—Bellingrath Hills Elementary, Tanglewood Elementary, Central Middle, and Central High. Due to overcrowding issues, the district rented the campus formerly housing private Starkey Academy to become the temporary home to Central Intermediate School. In August 2012, the $46 million Central Intermediate and Central Middle School opened on a shared campus on Sullivan Road. This alleviated the need to lease a campus for thousands of Central Intermediate students and allowed the students at the old Central Middle site the use of a facility that was free of condemned buildings and safety hazards. At the outset of the 2015-16 academic year, the Ninth Grade Academy building opened its doors on the north side of the high school campus. The opening of this institution reduced crowding at the main high school facility by roughly one-fourth, while providing a close-knit environment for students making the transition from middle to high school. As the rains fell during the flood of August 2016, Tanglewood Elementary took on several feet of water. Students were temporarily housed on the Central Intermediate and Central Middle campus until Tanglewood Elementary, completely renovated on the interior, re-opened in January 2017. When the district opened in 2007, it serviced about 3,300 students. Now, Central Community School System has grown to over 4,800 students.