Sprayberry High School
Sprayberry High School is a public high school located in northeastern Cobb County in Marietta, Georgia, United States, a north-northwestern suburb of metro Atlanta. It is a comprehensive senior high school (grades 9-12) with approximately 1700 students. It opened in 1952 and moved to its current location at 2525 Sandy Plains Road in 1973. Sprayberry is a microcosm of Cobb County in that it serves students from a variety of ethnic groups, religions, socio-economic levels, and academic abilities [2] Middle schools feeding upcoming students into Sprayberry are McCleskey, Daniell, and Simpson in the Cobb County School District. The school mascot is the yellowjacket.
Sprayberry High School | |
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Address | |
2525 Sandy Plains Road , United States | |
Coordinates | 34°00′43″N 84°29′49″W |
Information | |
Type | Public high school |
Established | 1952 |
School district | Cobb County School District |
Principal | Sara Griffin |
Faculty | 95.80 (FTE)[1] |
Grades | 9–12 |
Enrollment | 1,770 (2018-19)[1] |
Student to teacher ratio | 18.48[1] |
Campus | Suburban |
Color(s) | |
Nickname | Yellow Jackets |
Rival | Lassiter Highschool |
Newspaper | The Stinger |
Website | www |
History
Sprayberry High School opened to students the day after Labor Day in 1952. It was founded in the building now occupied by The Walker School (a private school), on Cobb Parkway (U.S. 41) at the north corner of Allgood Road.
Sprayberry is now located on the west corner of Sandy Plains Road at Piedmont Road. The exposed-aggregate concrete and dark brick of the original building is an example of the brutalist architecture common at the time.
Since then, the area historically known as Sandy Plains has now come to be known as Sprayberry, stretching somewhat northeast from the intersection to Post Oak Tritt Road, and to the Sprayberry post office at Ebenezer Road.[3] Several strip malls and other businesses bear the name.
The campus football stadium was one of a few local schools' used in filming Remember the Titans, released in 2000.[4]
Academics
Sprayberry High School is known for its academics and programs in the arts. It has been named a National School of Excellence and Georgia School of Excellence twice, an accomplishment made by only two other schools. It has been recognized by Newsweek and the Washington Post as one of the top 5% of high schools in the nation five years in a row. The school's SAT and ACT scores have remained well above the national average, with students continuously achieving above state average scores in all GHSGT subject areas. Georgia High School Graduation Test scores in the 2010-2011 school year were the highest in school history. Sprayberry has met AYP for the past eight years, and since 2005, Sprayberry has been a Demonstration level Advanced Placement Certified School with over 20 Advanced Placement courses.[5]
Sports
- Baseball [6]
- Boys' basketball [7]
- Girls' basketball [8]
- Cheerleading [9]
- Cross country
- Fast pitch softball [10]
- Football - [11] 2008 7AAAA Region Champions
- Golf [12]
- Boys' lacrosse [13]
- Girls' lacrosse [14]
- Soccer [15]
- Swimming [16]
- Tennis [17]
- Track [18]
- Volleyball [19]
- Wrestling [20]
Sprayberry High School's football stadium (Jim Frazier Stadium) was used in part of the movie Remember the Titans.[21]
Music
- Band of Gold[22]
- Orchestra
- Chorus
Sprayberry High School's band program has also hosted the Southern Invitational Music Festival. Marching bands from all across the Southeast compete and perform while Sprayberry performs in exhibition.[23]
Publications
- Sprayberry's Vox Humana[24]
Notable alumni
- Marcus Bagwell - professional wrestler[25] (Class of 1988)
- Kris Benson - baseball player, Baltimore Orioles[26]
- Rodrigo Blankenship - Place kicker for the University of Georgia
- Marlon Byrd - baseball player, Philadelphia Phillies[27]
- Michael Chavis - baseball player, Boston Red Sox
- Costaki Economopoulos - comedian[28]
- Michelle Malone - musician
- Christopher Martin - Principal Trumpet, Chicago Symphony Orchestra[29]
- Jerick McKinnon - football player, San Francisco 49ers
- Jim Nash - baseball player, Kansas City Athletics[30]
- Chuck Nevitt - former NBA player[31]
- Ty Pennington - TV personality
- Jimmy Rave - professional wrestler[32]
- Rick Richards - lead guitarist of the Georgia Satellites and the Ju-Ju Hounds
- Parvati Shallow - contestant on Survivor: Cook Islands and Survivor: Micronesia[33]
- Brynden Trawick - football player, Tennessee Titans
- Travis Tritt - country musician[34]
- Austin Watson - professional wrestler for the WWE under the ring name Xavier Woods
- Kevin Young - Assistant Coach for the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA
References
- "Sprayberry High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
- "Sprayberry High School". cobbk12.org. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- "Sprayberry High School". cobbk12.org. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- https://www.thisismysouth.com/2013/01/04/film-friday-remember-the-titans/
- "Sprayberry High School". cobbk12.org. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- Baseball
- Boys' basketball
- Girls' basketball
- Cheerleading
- Fast pitch softball
- Football
- Golf
- Boys' lacrosse
- Girls' lacrosse
- Soccer
- Swimming
- Tennis
- Track
- Volleyball
- Wrestling
- "Remember the Titans". 29 September 2000. Retrieved 2 June 2016 – via IMDb.
- Band of Gold
- "www.southerninvitational.com". southerninvitational.com. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- Vox Humana
- "Bio". realbuffbagwell.com. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
- "Kris Benson Stats, Fantasy & News". mlb.com. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- "Marlon Byrd Stats, Fantasy & News". mlb.com. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- "Page not found - www.ajc.com". ajc.com. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- "Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Page Not Found". cso.org. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- "Jim Nash Statistics and History - Baseball-Reference.com". baseball-reference.com. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- "Chuck Nevitt". basketball-reference.com. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- "Jimmy Rave Interview". wordpress.com. 22 September 2010. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- "http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/peachbuzz/entries/2006/09/11/a_boxing_bulldo.html". accessatlanta.com. Retrieved 2 June 2016. External link in
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