| Gainesville High School | |
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| Address | |
| 830 Century Place Gainesville, Georgia, 30501-3002 United States |
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| Coordinates | [1] |
| Information | |
| Established | 1882 |
| School district | Gainesville City School District |
| Principal | Chris Mance |
| Assistant principals | LaCrisia Larkin |
| Teaching staff | 68 FTE[2] |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1,158[2] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 17:1[2] |
| Color(s) | |
| Mascot | Red Elephant |
| Team name | Red Elephants |
| Newspaper | 'The Trumpeter' |
| Yearbook | 'Radiator' |
| Telephone | (770) 536-4441 |
| Website | http://www.gcssk12.net/ |
Gainesville High School is a high school in Gainesville, Georgia.
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Gainesville High School was founded in 1889.
Like the majority of comprehensive high schools in the United States, GHS offers Advanced Placement and honors courses. It also continues to offer vocational curricula. In 2003 the school incorporated a formal Apprenticeship and Mentor Program in addition to tech prep classes.
Gainesville High School competes under the name the Red Elephants. They are the only school in the country with that mascot. They received that 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.)
| Week | Date | Opponent | Result | Record | ||||
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| 1 | August 28, 2009 | Chestatee | W 34-0 | 1-0 | ||||
| 2 | September 4, 2009 | Franklin County | W 41-0 | 2-0 | ||||
| 3 | September 11, 2009 | White County | W 42-20 | 3-0 | ||||
| 4 | September 18, 2009 | North Hall | W 55-12 | 4-0 | ||||
| 5 | September 25, 2009 | *West Hall | W 56-13 | 5-0 | ||||
| 6 | October 2, 2009 | *West Forsyth | W 34-0 | 6-0 | ||||
| 7 | October 9, 2009 | *East Hall | W 63-0 | 7-0 | ||||
| 8 | Bye | |||||||
| 9 | October 23, 2009 | Gilmer County | W 36-7 | 8-0 | ||||
| 10 | October 30, 2009 | *Johnson | W 63-0 | 9-0 | ||||
| 11 | November 6, 2009 | *Flowery Branch | W 49-17 | 10-0 | ||||
| P1 | November 13, 2009 | Lakeview-Ft. Olgethorpe | W 42-0 | 11-0 | ||||
| P2 | November 20, 2009 | Dunwoody | W 41-10 | 12-0 | ||||
| P3 | November 27, 2009 | Cairo | W 32-19 | 13-0 | ||||
| P4 | December 4, 2009 | Flowery Branch | W 29-21 | 14-0 | ||||
| P5 | December 12, 2009 | Peach County | L 13-12 | 14-1 | ||||
" * " Indicates an away game.
Gainesville threw a TD pass as time expired in the Georgia Dome to pull within one. Coach Bruce Miller opted to go for two and the win. The pass sailed to the endzone, and just as it appeared it would be successful, a Peach County defender tipped the ball. The Trojans defeated the Red Elephants 13-12 to take the Class AAA State Championship.
The Gainesville High School Boy's 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.
Gainesville High School has a strict dress code, which in 2008 not only prohibits "baggy trousers", "tight and immodest clothing," halter tops, steel-toed boots, "bedroom slippers", but also "unnatural hair coloring, that not within the spectrum of human hair coloring," as well as hair coverings of all types.
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