Redan High School

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Redan High School is a public secondary school located in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The school is south of the city of Stone Mountain.

Redan was established in 1976 by the DeKalb County School System. The school's mascot is the Raider. Both Redan High School and its "twin", Stone Mountain High School, were built without any main windows on the exterior of the building (except for in the main common area). The windowless construction was for energy saving purposes during the "energy crunch" of the mid-to-late 1970s.

[edit] Feeder schools

The following elementary schools feed into Redan High School [1]:

  • Eldridge Miller
  • Shadow Rock
  • Panola Way (partial, about 15%)
  • Redan (partial, about 45%)

Redan Middle School is Redan High School's feeder middle school.

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The beginning story.

Redan was the model school for the Southeast. It didn't take long to build a tradition. The distict pulled from 3 other major Dekalb High Schools, Clarkston, Towers and Lithonia. Redan excelled in all sports and academics catagories right from the first year. Today they still have the winningest football record for a 3 yr old High School playing a varsity schedule. 28 wins and 6 losses with a State championship. The original athletes, names like Eric Jeffries,Doug Miller,Jay Terrell,Rusty Bennet,the brother combos Jeff and Rusty Whaley, Marc and Marty Henniger, David and Rick Lawson. And Georgia Bulldog standout Kevin Butler. Many that went on to play major college and even pro football.

Redan went on to become one of Dekalb County's leading High Schools. Its first graduating class was 1979. Redans first principal went on to become Dekalb County's school superintendent.