Starr's Mill High School

Starr's Mill High School
Location
193 Panther Path
Fayetteville, Georgia
United States
Coordinates 33°20′32″N 84°31′03″W / 33.342091°N 84.517576°W / 33.342091; -84.517576Coordinates: 33°20′32″N 84°31′03″W / 33.342091°N 84.517576°W / 33.342091; -84.517576
Information
Type Public secondary
Established 1997
School district Fayette County Public Schools
Principal Allen Leonard
Grades 9–12
Enrollment 1,493
Campus Suburban
Color(s) Black and Columbia blue          
Mascot Panthers
Website Starr’s Mill High School

Starr's Mill High School is a "2005 Georgia School of Excellence" school located in unincorporated Fayette County, Georgia, United States. The school is governed by the Fayette County Board of Education.[1]

The school serves southern Peachtree City and parts of unincorporated Fayette County.

History

The Fayette County Board of Education commissioned Starr's Mill High School alongside Peeples Elementary School and Rising Starr Middle School in response to rapid population growth in southern Peachtree City. Before its permanent building was constructed, students attended the LaFayette Education Center in Fayetteville until the start of the 97-1998 school year. The school is named after a grist mill located a mile southeast of the campus.

School profile

Starr's Mill High School opened in 1997-1998 with 40 teachers and 650 students. Its current enrollment is 1,493 students, and it employs 88 teachers.[2]

5% of Starr's Mill minority students participate in the ESOL Program, and 100% of minority students receive free/reduced price lunches. Most SMHS students reside in Fayetteville and Peachtree City.

Starr's Mill is one of only three high schools in Georgia to be declared a School of Excellence in 2005, and it has been ranked as one of the best school public schools in America by Newsweek magazine.

Academics

The 2010 SAT average at Starr's Mill was 1632 (out of 2400).[3] Starr's Mill had seven National Merit finalists for the 2003-2004 academic year, as stated by then Vice Principal, John "The Boosh" Bouchell. Starr's Mill has consistently ranked in the top 15 public high schools in the state of Georgia regarding academic achievement. 96% of the class of 2009 planned to attend college.[3]

Starr's Mill received a 2005 Silver Award for Highest Percentage in meeting and exceeding academic standards.

Athletics

Starr's Mill High School has had ten state championships in less than eight years, five of which came from the soccer program. It has been ranked the fifth most successful athletic program in the state (GHSA Directors Cup Standing).

The football program has a renowned history, reaching the playoffs 11 times in the school's 18 years of existence.[4] In 2000, the team reached the state semi-finals despite only having had a varsity football team for three seasons. The team's most successful season was in 2010, when the team won their first 14 games before falling to Chattahoochee in the state championship.

The Starr's Mill varsity boys' and girls' lacrosse teams, which were formed in 2005, are fairly new additions to the school. The girls' team did exceptionally well in the first season, making it to the 2006 state playoffs. The boys' team first made the playoffs in 2008, and has reached the tournament in each subsequent year.

Both the boys' and girls' swimming teams have won the Fayette County championship for 15 years in a row.

The girls' volleyball teams have built a reputation of excellence in the region and the state. They won it all in 2004, capturing the 5A State Championship, and followed that up the next three years by finishing in the top four in the state playoffs, finishing as the runner-up in 2006 and 2007.

The boys' and girls' cross country teams were the 2004-2005 Region 4 AAAAA Champions, and the girls' 2006 track and field team was the Region 4AAAAA Champions.

Starr's Mill High School won 5AAAAA State Championship in soccer in 2006. It won the 2010 4AAAAA State Championships in both girls' and boys' divisions, the first school in Fayette County to do so since 2000.

Starr's Mill is also the home of the 2000 GHSA AAA wrestling State Champions, and the 2001 GHSA AAAAA wrestling State Champions.

Starr's Mill's swim team has won regions for the past decade.

Starr's Mill is home to the 2010 boys' tennis State Champions and 2007 girls' tennis State Champions in Class AAAA. In 2013, the boys' tennis team won the 2013 State Championship AAAAA.

The school started a roller hockey club team in 2004.

Fine arts

The program includes an orchestra, three bands, four drama classes, and five choruses.

The band program has a Concert Band, Symphonic Band, and Wind Ensemble. Talent determines the constituents of each band, and the Wind Ensemble is considered the most elite group. The band program also has an 80+ member marching band, the Panther Pride. The Pride is a drum corps style band, and, like most high school drum corps, woodwinds are included. The Panther Pride competes, and is fairly successful, in local marching band competitions.

The Chorus program consists of five choruses:

Starr's Mill has a celebrated drama department. Its musicals are frequently nominated for Georgia's dramatic arts talent awards, the Shuler Hensleys. Many students transfer to Starr's Mill in order to participate in this program.

Extra-curricular activities

Athletics

Academics

Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ Fayette County Board of Education
  2. ↑ "Starrs Mill High School". SchoolDigger. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  3. 1 2 Archived July 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ "Football / Football". www.fcboe.org. Retrieved 2016-03-04.

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