Norcross High School

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Norcross High School

Established	1827
School type	Public school
Religious affiliation
Principal	Jonathan Patterson
Location	Norcross, Georgia, USA
Color(s)
Mascot	Blue Devils
Homepage	www.gwinnett.k12.ga.us/NorcrossHS

Norcross High School is a school in Norcross, Georgia. It is part of the Gwinnett County Public School System.

The current Norcross High School occupies a 440,000 square foot facility at 5300 Spalding Drive, Norcross, Georgia that opened in August 2001. The current principal, Jonathan Patterson, began his tenure at Norcross High School during the 2006-2007 school year. Norcross is the only high school in the Gwinnett County School System to have the IB Diploma Programme ,(1999).

[edit] History

Before moving to its new location on Spalding Drive, Norcross High was located at 600 Beaver Ruin Road in 1957, closer to downtown Norcross. At that time the school was to combine both the Norcross and Duluth districts and be collectively called West Gwinnett High School. However, both districts fought for separate high schools and in 1962, the school name was changed back to Norcross High School.

[edit] Athletics

The school's mascot is the Blue Devil. Norcross' athletic teams play in Region 7-AAAAA with other Gwinnett and Forsyth county high school teams.

Norcross won the Class AAAAA boy's basketball state championship during the 2005-2006 school year, under the leadership of coach Eddie Martin. The boy's basketball team's has had press coverage in USA Today, which ranked the Blue Devils as the #2 high school basketball program in the nation in a preseason poll.

The Varsity Football team went undefeated in the 2006-2007 season until they lost in the third round of the state 5A playoffs to Warner Robins.