Stone Mountain High School

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Stone Mountain High School
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Location
Stone Mountain High School
4555 Central Drive
Stone Mountain, Georgia 30083
United States
Coordinates 33°48′38″N84°12′07″W / 33.810518°N 84.202006°W / 33.810518; -84.202006
Information
Type Public
Motto"Raising the Bar: No Exceptions!"
Established1909
School district DeKalb County School District
PrincipalMichael Costa
Teaching staff65.00 (FTE) [1]
Grades9–12
Enrollment1,202 (2022-23) [1]
Student to teacher ratio18.49 [1]
CampusSuburban
Color(s)Black & Red   
Mascot Pirate
Accreditation Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Website Stone Mountain High School

Stone Mountain High School is a college preparatory and public high school located in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, near Stone Mountain and in the Atlanta metropolitan area. [2] [3]

Contents

Its attendance boundary includes all of Stone Mountain. [4] [5]

A school of the same name is mentioned in season 1 of The Walking Dead video game, it is the highschool that a character named Ben Paul attended, he wears a varsity jacket from the school. The game is set in Georgia so it is assumed it is the in-game representation of this school.

History

It is one of the oldest high schools in the DeKalb County School District.

Notable alumni

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Stone Mountain High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved July 30, 2024.
  2. "Stone Mountain High School." Georgia Governor's Office of Student Achievement. Retrieved on July 9, 2018. "4555 Central Dr, Stone Mountain, GA 30083"
  3. "Zoning Map." City of Stone Mountain. Retrieved on June 9, 2018. The zoning map does not indicate the school, and the school's location places it outside of the map.
  4. "Zoning Map" (PDF). Stone Mountain. Retrieved February 18, 2023. - Compare to county school zoning maps.
  5. "High School Attendance Areas 2016 - 2017 School Year." DeKalb County School System. Retrieved on June 1, 2017.
  6. Brett, Jennifer. "Who is Deltalina? Flashback to 2008". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Born in Heidelberg, Germany, she has traveled ever since she can remember. Her father is from Puerto Rico and her mother is German; he was in the military, so the family moved around a good bit. Lee, 33, graduated from Stone Mountain High School in 1992 and was living in Melbourne, Fla., when she applied to become a Delta flight attendant in 1997.