An Etowah County high school teacher was arrested Friday morning after police say he was found with a student in a rural area of another county.

Stephen Lawrence Coggins, a 27-year-old math teacher and coach at Etowah High School in Attalla, is charged with one count of a school employee having sexual contact with a student. He was booked into the Cherokee County Jail at 11:39 a.m. Friday and released at 12:37 p.m. on $5,000 bond.

Leesburg police Investigator Jamie Chapman said authorities on Sunday, which was Mother's Day, were dispatched to an undisclosed rural area after a caller reported seeing a couple inside a vehicle. Chapman said they found the couple and learned Coggins was a teacher and the 18-year-old female is a graduating senior.

Chapman and Cherokee County sheriff's Investigator Michael Green then launched a full investigation. He said it wasn't clear if Coggins was in a long-term relationship with the student. "That's part of the investigation,'' he said.

The lawmen served Coggins with the warrant on Friday. Chapman said more charges could follow.

According to his biography on the school's website, Coggins is in his fourth year of teaching. He graduated from Jacksonville State University in 2012 with a bachelor's degree in secondary math education and teaches Algebra 1, Algebraic Connections, ACT/AP Prep, and Physical Education.

He is also the school's softball coach.