Gainesville High School, Georgia

Gainesville High School is a high school in Gainesville, Georgia.

Gainesville High School offers an Advanced Placement and Honors courses, vocational and Technology curricula. In 2003 the school incorporated a formal Apprenticeship and Mentor Program in addition to Tech Prep. classes. Gainesville High School has been recognized as a State School of Excellence, with a seventy-five percent advanced degree staff. Students per teacher ratio is 17. There is a tradition of Georgia Governor's Honors Program|Governors Honors participants and National Merit Scholar recipients, test scores consistently in the top 10% in the state, consistent increase in SAT scores over the past fifteen years, a separate Fine Arts Center for its state and national award winning drama, band, debate programs, and a state recognized athletic program.

Gainesville High School has a strict dress code, which in 2008 not only prohibits "baggy trousers", "tight and immodest clothing," halter tops, steel-toed boots, "bedroom slippers", but also "unnatural hair coloring, that not within the spectrum of human hair coloring," as well as hair coverings of all kinds (no religious exclusions listed). (The full, long, list of prohibited clothing, acknowledged by the school to be subjective and within their sole discretion to interpret, is available on the school's website).

History

Gainesville High School was founded in 1892.Home of the Red Elephants

Administration

The current principal is Chris Mance.

Athletics

Gainesville High School competes under the name "The Red Elephants." They received that name in the 1920s when the announcer announced the football team was coming on the field looking like herd of "Red Elephants", well before the more publicly known unofficial nickname of The University of Alabama Crimson Tide. Gainesville is one of less than 100 high schools in the country to win over 700 football games in their schools history. Holds the record for the most State championships in the southeastern high school asscociation.

Some noted athletes from Gainesville High School include: Stephanie Yarem, Division I NCAA Women's Soccer First Team All-American Member in 1997, SEC All Conference Honors in 1997, 1998, and 1999, with several records held at the University of Georgia and is represented in the Northeast Georgia Hall of Fame; Kendrick Lewis, wide receiver at Ole Miss; Tasha Humphrey, the all-conference forward for the women's basketball team at University of Georgia; Andrew Thacker and John Castleberry, both football players at Furman University; brothers Micah Owings and Jon Mark Owings, who are currently both pursuing careers in professional baseball;Damon Evans, the athletic director for the University of Georgia; Cris Carpenter, a three sport star in High School and former MLB Pitcher; and most recently Nick Claytor, a 312 pound offensive lineman and Georgia Tech recruit. TNA wrestler A.J. Styles wrestled at Gainesville his birth name is Allen Jones.

Athletics offered are baseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field, wrestling, volleyball, and Lacrosse.

Drama

Under the guidance of Pam Ware, the drama department has been honored as one of 50 high schools chosen to participate in the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2005.citation needed//September 2008

External links

* [http://www.gcssk12.net Gainesville City Schools]
* [http://www.gainesvillehighschool.net Gainesville High School]
* [http://gcssk12.net/ghsweb/GHS-12OCT04/index.html Gainesville High School at Gainesville City Schools Online]