Brookwood High School (Georgia)

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Brookwood High School
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Brookwood High School (Georgia)
1255 Dogwood Road

Snellville
,
Georgia
30078

United States
Coordinates 33°53′02″N84°02′25″W / 33.883764°N 84.04035°W / 33.883764; -84.04035
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School type Public high school
Motto"A Tradition of Excellence"
Established1981
School district Gwinnett County Public Schools
PrincipalBrett Savage [1]
Teaching staff193.60 (FTE) [2]
Grades 9–12
Enrollment3,850 (2021–22) [2]
Student to teacher ratio19.89 [2]
CampusSuburban
Color(s)   Maroon & gold
Athletics conference Georgia High School Association Class 6A, Region 4
Nickname Broncos
Accreditation Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Website schools.gcpsk12.org/BrookwoodHS

Brookwood High School is a public secondary school in Snellville, Georgia, in suburban Atlanta, part of the Gwinnett County School System. Brookwood serves several areas of southern Gwinnett County, including Snellville, Lawrenceville, and Lilburn.

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History

Planning for Brookwood High School was started in 1977 to lessen the overcrowding of nearby South Gwinnett High School and Parkview High School. A committee of educators from Gwinnett County met to create and discuss specifications for the facility. The school officially opened in 1981 under principal Emmett Lawson.

The school derived its name from its location on the intersection of Holly Brook Road (a section of this road is now Webb Gin House Road) and Dogwood Road. The school colors, maroon and gold, were based on the colors of Florida State University. The original school mascot had a horseshoe around the bronco, which was later removed. The administration had suggested that Brookwood be the Brookwood Bears. The original mascot was a drawing of an entire bronco, but the current logo uses only a bronco's head. The runner-up mascot choice was the Bruins, and the second place color scheme was baby blue and gold.

Feeder schools

Brookwood is the high school of the Brookwood cluster, a group of schools which feed into one primary high school for an area in Gwinnett County. The middle schools that feed into Brookwood are Alton C. Crews Middle School and Five Forks Middle School. Crews Middle has two elementary school feeders, Brookwood Elementary (which is located next door to Brookwood High) and Craig Elementary. Five Forks Middle has students from RD Head Elementary and Gwin Oaks Elementary, along with some students from Brookwood and Craig Elementary.

Notable alumni

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