Sprayberry High School
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Sprayberry High School is a public high school located in eastern Cobb County in Georgia. Middle schools feeding upcoming students into Sprayberry are McCleskey, Daniell, and Simpson Middle School. The school mascot is the Yellow Jacket.
in 1952 in Marietta, GA. The high school was originally founded in the building now occupied by The Walker School
(a private school
), on Cobb Parkway
(U.S. 41) at the north corner of Allgood Road. Sprayberry is now located on the west corner of Sandy Plains Road at Piedmont Road. Since then, the area historically known as Sandy Plains has now come to be known as Sprayberry, stretching somewhat northeast from the intersection to Post Oak Tritt Road, and to the Sprayberry post office at Ebenezer Road.
Sprayberry High School's football stadium (Jim Frazier Stadium) was used for part of the movie Remember the Titans
.
Sprayberry High School's Marching "Band of Gold" has been awarded hundreds of championship trophies and has been named one of the "Best High School Marching Bands in the Country" along with being named one of the top 20 bands by "Band Director Magazine" in 2000. Sprayberry continues to be rated among the top marching band programs in the country. The Band of Gold won its first Grand Championship Trophy in 1976 and has achieved over 275 First Place and Grand Championship Awards since then. They have performed on nation television in the Rose Bowl
, Cotton Bowl Classic, Citrus Bowl
, Gator Bowl
, Peach Bowl, and Fiesta Bowl
Parades and is expecting to be marching in the Cherry Blossom Parade in Washington DC in April of 2011. Sprayberry High School's band program has also hosted the Southern Invatational Music Festival for the past 27 years on the third Saturday in October. Marching bands from all across the Southeast is able to compete and perform while Sprayberry performs in exhibition.
School Profile
Sprayberry High School, located in Marietta, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, is a comprehensive senior high school (grades 9-12) of approximately 1700. The school opened in 1952 at a location on Cobb Parkway and then moved to its current location at 2525 Sandy Plains Road in 1973. Sprayberry High School is a microcosm of Cobb County in that it serves students from a variety of ethnic groups, socio-economic levels, and academic abilities.History
Sprayberry was founded the day after Labor DayLabor Day
Labor Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the first Monday in September that celebrates the economic and social contributions of workers.-History:...
in 1952 in Marietta, GA. The high school was originally founded in the building now occupied by The Walker School
The Walker School
The Walker School, formerly known as the Joseph T. Walker School, is located on Cobb Parkway in Marietta, Georgia, in what was originally Sprayberry High School. The school, considered to be one of the state's pre-eminent private schools, was founded in 1957 as the St. James Day School at St....
(a private school
Private school
Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...
), on Cobb Parkway
Cobb Parkway
Cobb Parkway is a major arterial road which runs northwest and southeast through Cobb County, Georgia. It concurrently carries both U.S. 41, and the much less-recognized Georgia 3...
(U.S. 41) at the north corner of Allgood Road. Sprayberry is now located on the west corner of Sandy Plains Road at Piedmont Road. Since then, the area historically known as Sandy Plains has now come to be known as Sprayberry, stretching somewhat northeast from the intersection to Post Oak Tritt Road, and to the Sprayberry post office at Ebenezer Road.
Academics
Sprayberry is known for its academics and programs in the arts and has been named a National School of Excellence and Georgia School of Excellence twice, an accomplishment made by only two other schools. It has also been recognized by Newsweek Magazine as one of the Top 5% of High Schools in the Nation 3 years in a row. Sprayberry High School's success is measured by its students' scores on the SAT, Georgia High School Graduation Test, and State End-of-Course Tests. For more than five years, the school's SAT and ACT scores have remained well above the national average, with students continuously achieving above state average scores in all GHSGT subject areas. In 2007-2008, 96% of the students passed the English portion of the GHSGT and 95% of the students passed the Mathematics portion. Sprayberry has also met AYP for the last 5 years.Sports
- BaseballBaseballBaseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
(website) - Boy's BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
(website) - Girl's BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
(website) - CheerleadingCheerleadingCheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
(website) - Cross CountryCross country runningCross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
- Fast pitch SoftballSoftballSoftball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
(website) - FootballAmerican footballAmerican football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
(website) 2008 7AAAA Region Champions - GolfGolfGolf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
(website) - JROTC
- Boy's LacrosseLacrosseLacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
(website) - Girl's LacrosseLacrosseLacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
(website) - Marching BandMarching bandMarching band is a physical activity in which a group of instrumental musicians generally perform outdoors and incorporate some type of marching with their musical performance. Instrumentation typically includes brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments...
(website) - Soccer (website)
- SwimmingSwimming (sport)Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
(website) - TennisTennisTennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
(website) - TrackTrack and fieldTrack and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
(website) - VolleyballVolleyballVolleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
(website) - WrestlingScholastic wrestlingScholastic wrestling, sometimes known in the United States as Folkstyle wrestling, is a style of amateur wrestling practised at the high school and middle school levels in the United States. This wrestling style is essentially Collegiate wrestling with some slight modifications. It is currently...
(website)
Sprayberry High School's football stadium (Jim Frazier Stadium) was used for part of the movie Remember the Titans
Remember the Titans
Remember the Titans is a 2000 American sports film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Boaz Yakin. Inspired by real events, the plot was conceived from a screenplay written by Gregory Allen Howard. The film starts as a new coach of the Titans, a football team previously coached by the...
.
Music
- Band of Gold (website)
- Orchestra
- Chorus
Sprayberry High School's Marching "Band of Gold" has been awarded hundreds of championship trophies and has been named one of the "Best High School Marching Bands in the Country" along with being named one of the top 20 bands by "Band Director Magazine" in 2000. Sprayberry continues to be rated among the top marching band programs in the country. The Band of Gold won its first Grand Championship Trophy in 1976 and has achieved over 275 First Place and Grand Championship Awards since then. They have performed on nation television in the Rose Bowl
Rose Bowl Game
The Rose Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game, usually played on January 1 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. When New Year's Day falls on a Sunday, the game is played on Monday, January 2...
, Cotton Bowl Classic, Citrus Bowl
Citrus Bowl
The Florida Citrus Bowl is a stadium in Orlando, Florida, USA, built for football, which currently seats around 70,000 people....
, Gator Bowl
Gator Bowl
The Gator Bowl is an annual college football bowl game played at EverBank Field in Jacksonville, Florida. Held continuously since 1946, it is the sixth oldest college bowl, as well as the first one ever televised nationally...
, Peach Bowl, and Fiesta Bowl
Fiesta Bowl
The Fiesta Bowl, now sponsored by Frito-Lay and named with their Tostitos brand, is a United States college football bowl game played annually at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Between its origination in 1971 and 2006, the game was hosted in Tempe, Arizona at Sun Devil...
Parades and is expecting to be marching in the Cherry Blossom Parade in Washington DC in April of 2011. Sprayberry High School's band program has also hosted the Southern Invatational Music Festival for the past 27 years on the third Saturday in October. Marching bands from all across the Southeast is able to compete and perform while Sprayberry performs in exhibition.
Clubs & Organizations
- Academic Bowl
- Amnesty International
- Anchor Club
- Beta Club
- Book Club
- DECADECA (organization)DECA, also known as Collegiate DECA on the college level) is an international association of students and teachers of marketing, management and entrepreneurship in business, finance, hospitality, and marketing sales and service . DECA prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs in marketing,...
Club - Drama Club
- ECHO (Yearbook)
- FCA
- First Priority
- French Club
- French Honor Society
- Future Business Leaders of America
- German Club
- Hispanic Leaders of SHS
- International Thespian SocietyInternational Thespian SocietyThe International Thespian Society is an honorary organization for high-school and middle-school theatre students located at more than 3,600 affiliated secondary schools across the United States, Canada, and abroad. The International Thespian Society was founded in Fairmont, West Virginia...
- Key ClubKey ClubKey Club International is the oldest and largest service program for high school students. It is a student-led organization whose goal is to teach leadership through serving others. Key Club International is a part of the Kiwanis International family of service-leadership programs...
- Knitting Knerds
- LEAD
- Latin Club
- Latin Honor Society
- Math Team
- Model UN
- National Honor SocietyNational Honor SocietyThe National Honor Society is a recognition program for high school students in grades 10-12 in the United States and in several other countries...
- Ping Pong Club
- Promote Positive
- Spanish Club
- Spanish Honor Society
- Step Team
- STING
- Student Government Association
- Teen Republicans
- Tri-M Music Honor Society
- Women in Search of Excellence
- Young Democrats
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