Allatoona High School

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Allatoona High School
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Address
Allatoona High School
3300 Dallas Acworth Highway NW

Acworth
,
Cobb County
,
Georgia
30101

United States
Coordinates 34°02′07″N84°44′07″W / 34.035242°N 84.735336°W / 34.035242; -84.735336
Information
School type Public high school
EstablishedAugust 2008;14 years ago (2008-08)
StatusOpen; regular
School board Cobb County Board of Education
School district Cobb County School District
NCES District ID 1301290 [1]
CEEB code 110057
NCES School ID 130129003781 [2]
PrincipalCandace Wilkes
Teaching staff93.00 (FTE) [3]
Grades9–12 [3]
GenderMixed
Enrollment1,785 [3]  (2019–20 [3] )
Student to teacher ratio19.19 [3]
Schedule typeBlock
Schedule8:20 AM to 3:30 PM
Campus type Suburban
Color(s)Red and black
  
AthleticsYes
Athletics conference Georgia High School Association 6-AAAAAA
Nickname Buccaneers
Rival Harrison High School
Accreditation Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
USNWR ranking44th in Georgia
National ranking1,778th
Feeder schoolsAwtrey, Durham, and McClure Middle Schools
Website www.cobbk12.org/allatoona

Allatoona High School is one of eighteen public high school in the Cobb County School District. The institution opened in the fall of 2008, and is currently the most recent high school in the district. It is located in suburban Acworth, Georgia, north of Atlanta, in the United States. The school is named after the nearby Lake Allatoona.

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History

Allatoona High School opened in Fall 2008. [4]

Demographics

The demographic breakdown of the 1,785 students enrolled for the 2019–2020 school year was:

In addition, 17.03% of the students qualified for free or reduced-cost lunches. [3]

Athletics

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School athletics logo

Allatoona is a member of the Georgia High School Association and has won 8 Georgia state championships. Initially with a smaller enrollment which would have seen them in the AA competition classification, all Buccaneers teams except football started in the AAAA classification. [4] For the 2010–11 season, GHSA reclassified Allatoona to AAA. [5] Girls soccer won the school's first state championship for the AAA classification in May 2012 over Columbus High School and ended with a 20-2-1 record. [6] [7]

GHSA reclassified Allatoona again for the 2012–13 season, placing the Buccaneers into AAAAA. [8] In April 2014, the riflery team won the Georgia state championship with a record setting score. [9] The Buccaneers saw their first multi state championship year with two AAAAA titles the following year. Allatoona won the state one-act play championship with Wiley and the Hairyman, [10] [11] while the football team beat Glynn Academy at the Georgia Dome to cap a 14–1 season. [12] The football program, highlighted by this season, was named as the 2010–2019 Team of the Decade by the Marietta Daily Journal . [13] [14]

2016 saw lacrosse win the program's first state championship in the A-AAAAA category with a 9–7 win over Westminster. [15] Allatoona continued its ascent with GHSA's reclassification to 6A for the 2016–17 season. [16] The Buccaneers responded with the school's first ever back-to-back state championships with the boys track performances in 2017 and 2018. [17] [18] November 2019 marked the third 6A state championship when girls volleyball beat Sequoyah High School in five sets. [19]

Notable alumni

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