Stone Mountain High School

Stone Mountain High School
Location
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!"
Established	1909
School district	DeKalb County School District
Principal	Michael Costa
Teaching staff	67.00 (FTE) [1]
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	1,206 (2023-2024) [1]
Student to teacher ratio	18.00 [1]
Campus	Suburban
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]}

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.

Front of School (April 2025)

History

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

Notable alumni

• Jarren Benton, professional rapper
• 6lack, professional rapper, singer, and songwriter
• Robert Carswell, former professional football player for the San Diego Chargers
• Callix Crabbe, former professional baseball player for the San Diego Padres
• Ukeme Eligwe, professional football player for the Kansas City Chiefs
• Fast Life Yungstaz, Rap trio
• Andrew Goudelock (born 1988), basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Premier League and the Euroleague
• Tamyra Gray, actress and singer, top ten finalist on American Idol
• D. Richard Hipp, software developer and the primary author of SQLite and Fossil SCM
• Connie Johnson, former professional baseball player for the Chicago White Sox and Baltimore Orioles
• RonReaco Lee, Actor, Sister Sister, Guess Who, Survivor's Remorse
• Katherine Lee-Hinton, Delta Air Lines flight attendant who was one of the presenters of Delta's onboard safety videos and quickly became popular not only on board but also on YouTube soon after. ^[6]
• Cord Parks, former professional football player
• Kelly Quinn, former professional football player
• Damon Russell, Oscar winning producer Curfew, Director of Snow on da Bluff
• Mitch Sutton, former professional football player
• Swizz Beatz, record producer
• Josh Symonette, football player
• Hugh Thompson, Jr., United States Army, Vietnam War veteran who attempted to stop the My Lai Massacre

References

1. "Stone Mountain High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved December 17, 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.

External links

• Stone Mountain High School
• Stone Mountain High School at the Wayback Machine (archive index)