Established 1882 Teaching staff 68 FTE Enrollment 2,200 Phone +1 770-536-4441 Mascot Red Elephant | Principal Tom Smith Grades 9-12 Student to teacher ratio 17:1 Number of students 2,200 | |
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Gainesville High School is located in Gainesville, Georgia, United States.
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History
Gainesville High School was founded in 1892.
Curriculum
Like the majority of comprehensive high schools in the US, GHS offers Advanced Placement and honors courses. It also offers vocational curricula. In 2003 the school incorporated a formal Apprenticeship and Mentor Program to tech prep classes.
Recognition
Athletics
GHS teams are known as the Red Elephants. They are the only school in the country with that mascot. They received the name in the 1920s when the announcer announced the football team was coming on the field looking like a herd of "Red Elephants." This was well before the more publicly known unofficial nickname of The University of Alabama Crimson Tide.
Red Elephants boys' and girls' golf teams won state in 2012.
2012 football season
* Indicates an away game.
Gainesville dominated Ware County 49-13 at the Georgia Dome, winning their first GHSA championship.
2010 soccer season
The Gainesville High School boys' soccer team capped off a perfect season with a 2010 GHSA AAA State Championship, their first state championship since 1998. The Red Elephants defeated Woodward Academy War Eagles 5-4 under the coaching of Richard Howard and Ellie Viviant.
Boys' golf teams
Gainesville High School claims one of the most successful boys' golf programs in Georgia history. The program has won seven GHSA state championships (1978, 1979, 1981, 1994, 1996, 2012, and 2013), 37 region championships (most recently in 2016), and 21 Hall County titles. In addition, there have been eight individual state champions from GHS. The team is coached by Bryson Worley, and has a team locker room at Chattahoochee Golf Club in Gainesville.