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Newnan High School Location 190 Lagrange Street
Newnan, Georgia, 30263-2999
United StatesCoordinates 33°21′46″N 84°48′53″W / 33.362782°N 84.814616°WCoordinates: 33°21′46″N 84°48′53″W / 33.362782°N 84.814616°W[1] Information Type Public High school Founded 1918[2] School district Coweta County School District Principal Dr. Douglas Moore Assistant principals Stephen Allen
Penny Johnson
Chase Puckett
Bennie Rhodes
Rick SurrettTeaching staff 89 FTE[3] Grades 9 - 12 Enrollment 1,772[3] Student to teacher ratio 20:1[3] Mascot Cougar Accreditation(s) Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Georgia Accrediting CommissionNewspaper 'Cougar Chronicles' Website http://www.coweta.k12.ga.us/nhs Newnan High School is a high school located in southwestern Coweta County, in Newnan, Georgia, just south of the Historic Downtown district. Newnan High School is the oldest of the three Coweta County high schools.
Founded in 1918 as the first high school in Newnan, NHS was a Southern Accredited School by 1919 and has held the distinction ever since. Newnan High School has been a School of Excellence three times. Newnan has a varied athletic program with impressive regional and state records, and an academic program that affords intellectually gifted graduates advanced placement standing in the nation's colleges and universities. It also has an excellent music program that includes the award-winning Newnan High School Marching Cats, a jazz band, numerous All-State musicians, and three instrumental ensembles (Concert, Symphonic 2, and Symphonic 1), as well as four choral ensembles. Newnan High also has an accomplished Air Force Junior ROTC Program, having been awarded the Distinguished Unit Award two years in a row. The Social Studies department of Newnan boasts having two unique classes, with curicula written by the teachers. These classes are the World War II class, taught by Raymond Frankie Henderson, and Vietnam War class, taught by Steven Quesinberry.
Newnan offers four diploma choices: College Prep with Distinction, College Prep, Career/Technical with Distinction, and Career/Technical. Students may also choose a dual diploma program with both college prep and career/tech seals.
Feeder Schools includes Evans Middle School, Smokey Road Middle School, and Madras Middle School. Madras also feeds into the nearby high school Northgate High School. The school mascot is the Cougars. NHS' athletic rival is East Coweta High School in Sharpsburg, Georgia.
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Athletics
Newnan has achieved many region championships in the class AAAAA. Their most recent was their varsity football team compiling a 13-0 regular season record and reaching the State Semi-Finals, but losing to Northside-Warner Robins High School, completing a 4-peat of region championships and semi-final losses. They are known for producing many Division I prospects, including Russell Powell, Alec and Alexander "Zander" Ogletree, Jamal Ransby, Sergio Render, Ray Beno, Alan Bonner and Adam Calhoun. The Cougars have produced many basketball championship and is a constant Elite 8 competitor in Baseball producing top pro prospects pitcher, Mark Frazier and MIF, Michael McGraw. The school has produced several notable female athletes as well. The Betts sisters, Shannon and Jennifer, received tennis scholarships to play at Virginia Tech and Furman, respectively. Former all-ACC Duke women's soccer player Christie MacDonald attended Newnan High School.
Notable alumni
- Alan Jackson, Country music artist (Alan Jackson, Arista Nashville)
- Sergio Render, 2005, Football (Virginia Tech/ Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
- Mike Cheever, 1991, Football (Georgia Tech)(Jacksonville Jaguars)
- Alec Ogletree, 2010, Football (University of Georgia)
- Jessie James, 2000 Singer/songwriter
- Alexander Ogletree, 2010, Football (University of Georgia)
- Alan Corbette Jackson 2009, Singer
- [Ray Beno], 2009, Football (Georgia Tech)
- [Drew Schulz], Well known motorcycle mechanic
References
- ^ "Free US Geocoder". http://geocoder.us. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
- ^ Newnan High School - History, Retrieved June 6, 2010.
- ^ a b c "school-stats.com". http://www.school-stats.com/GA/COWETA/NEWNAN_HIGH_SCHOOL.html. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
External links
External Links Categories:- High schools in Georgia (U.S. state)
- Schools in Coweta County, Georgia
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