Johns Creek High School

Johns Creek High School
Address
5575 State Bridge Road
Johns Creek, Georgia
United States
Coordinates 34°01′22″N 84°11′48″W / 34.022684°N 84.196739°W / 34.022684; -84.196739Coordinates: 34°01′22″N 84°11′48″W / 34.022684°N 84.196739°W / 34.022684; -84.196739
Information
Type Public High School
Motto "Integrity, Service, Excellence "
Established August 2008
Principal Dr. Jimmy Zoll
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 2,000p
Color(s)      Dark Red      Gold      Black
Mascot Gladiators
Rival Chattahoochee High School, Northview High School
National ranking 214
Newspaper The Chariot
Yearbook Vantage Point
Website Johns Creek High School

Johns Creek High School is a public high school in Johns Creek, Georgia, United States serving grades 9-12. The school is a part of the Fulton County School System. Its students primarily reside inside the city of Johns Creek, though it also serves part of Alpharetta. Students from both Autrey Mill Middle School and River Trail Middle School attend Johns Creek. The school, a state-of-the-art facility, was opened in the fall of 2009 and has an enrollment around 1,935.

In 2013, Johns Creek was ranked by Newsweek as one of America's best public high schools, #214 in the nation, #5 in the State of Georgia and #2 in Fulton County.

The school's mascot is the Gladiator.

Athletics

In 2012 Johns Creek came in 1st place in Region 7AAAA and 2nd in the state in the prestigious "Regions Director's Cup," which measures success over all sports. In the 2012 Director's Cup, the JCHS Girls finished in 1st place in all programs in AAAA.

Johns Creek is in Region 6 in Class AAAAAA with geographic rivals Chattahoochee High School, located 2.5 miles away, and Lambert High School, located in nearby Forsyth County. Johns Creek and Chattahoochee share a particularly intense rivalry. Many of Johns Creek's students would be attending Chattahoochee if JCHS had never been built. Many of the athletes were apart of the Chattahoochee "Junior Cougar" feeder programs and played on the same youth sports teams prior to the existence of Johns Creek.

The 2009 cheerleading squad won the AAA State Championship, allowing JCHS to become one of the fastest schools to win a state championship in state history. The 2010 boys' tennis team followed, also claiming the AAA State Championship. In the 2011/2012 school year Johns Creek won state championships in both boys' and girls' tennis and were Region Champions or Region Runners-up in baseball, track (boys' and girls'), football, volleyball, swimming, cheerleading, golf (boys') and cross country (girls'). In the spring of 2012, five Johns Creek teams won the region championship and both the boys' and girls' tennis teams won the AAAA State Championship.

In 2010 the Johns Creek Volleyball team made the AAAA Final Four before losing to eventual state champion, Pope High School. In 2011 the Johns Creek Boys Golf Team placed 2nd in the state.

Johns Creek's athletic teams include:

Notable Track and Field School Records

Event Name Mark Date
200m Matt Azemar 21.92s 4/18/2012[1]
400m Matthew Manning 50.82s 4/26/2014[2]
800m Erik Olsen 1:55.13 (minutes) 5/10/2014[3]
Triple Jump Demian Sevciuc 46-9.0 (ft) 4/28/2012[4]
100m Int. Hurdles Shayla Moore 15.02s 4/26/2014[5]
3200m Allie Buchalski 10:42.88 (minutes) 5/10/2013[6]

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Matt Azemar now plays Division I Football at Samford University.[8]
Matthew Manning now runs Division II Track & Field at Clayton State University.[9]
Shayla Moore is a Division I athlete at Baylor University.[10]
Allie Buchalski is a Cross Country/Track Runner at Furman University.[11]

Activities

Johns Creek offers many clubs and activities, including debate (2009 State Runner-Up) and one-act play (2011 Region 7-AAAA Champions, 2011 AAAA State Runner-Up).

Academics

Johns Creek offers dual enrollment courses with Georgia Tech, Gwinnett Technical College, and Georgia Perimeter College.

Advanced Placement classes include:

Johns Creek also has a great Science Olympiad team.

Demographics

Johns Creek is home to 62 percent White students, 19 percent Asian, 8 percent African American, 5 percent Hispanic, 3 percent multi-racial and 1 percent Native American.

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