[3] The school was named after the celebrated 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician, David (Davy) Crockett.

[6] David Crockett has a mixture between Vocational education CTE), Advanced Placement (AP), and Dual enrollment classes.

The school has several CTE classes: Agriculture, Teaching, Welding, Electrical, Machine Shop, Business, Digital Design, Nursing, and Culinary (there may be more).

The school has several AP classes: Human Geography, Government, US History, Language and Composition, Literature, Statistics, Pr-Calculus (Trigonometry), and Calculus.

Since then, the Daniel Boone Trailblazers have dominated the series and hold a 37–12 edge over the David Crockett Pioneers (as of 2019), winning the latest game played 28-20 at home.

[8] The game gained popularity by being played annually in the Mini-Dome at East Tennessee State University (ETSU).

[10] It's the “Battle of Washington County…the Pioneers vs. the Trailblazers.” Recently a series called "The Kings of The Nolichucky", has pitted the football team from David Crockett against nearby Chuckey Doak and Unicoi County High Schools whose service areas also border the Nolichucky River.

[13][14] Washington County Sheriff Keith Sexton concluded that there were no suspicious circumstances in the incident and that Sheffield's death was "a very unfortunate accident".