| Stone Mountain High School | |
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4555 Central Drive Stone Mountain, Georgia 30083 United States | |
| Coordinates | 33°48′38″N 84°12′07″W / 33.810518°N 84.202006°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Motto | "Raising the Bar: No Exceptions!" |
| Established | 1909 |
| School district | DeKalb County School District |
| Principal | Michael Costa |
| Teaching staff | 65.50 (FTE)[1] |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 1,038 (2017-18)[1] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 15.85[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.
History[edit]
It is one of the oldest high schools in the DeKalb County School District.
Notable alumni[edit]
- 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[edit]
- ^ a b c "Stone Mountain High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved January 24, 2019.
- ^ "Stone Mountain High School." Georgia Governor's Office of Student Achievement. Retrieved on July 9, 2018. "4555 Central Dr, Stone Mountain, GA 30083"
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Zoning Map" (PDF). Stone Mountain. Retrieved 2023-02-18. - Compare to county school zoning maps.
- ^ "High School Attendance Areas 2016 - 2017 School Year." DeKalb County School System. Retrieved on June 1, 2017.
- ^ 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[edit]
- Stone Mountain High School
- Stone Mountain High School at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
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