Jefferson City High School's sports programs performed nearly 2,500 tests in the first two years of its drug-testing-for-athletes policy.
The results: 12 positives - six each year.
Students who tested positive for a banned drug were required to sit out games, activities director Mike McGurk said in an interview last week.
When he asked the seven-member school board to approve the policy in July 2009, McGurk said: "We're not trying to "get' kids, we're trying to give them the "out' and prevent them from going down the wrong path" if someone offers them drugs.
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