| Marietta High School | |
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| 1171 Whitlock Avenue Marietta, GA 30064 United States |
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| Type | Public Secondary |
| Established | 1892 |
| School district | Marietta City Schools |
| Principal | Leigh Colburn |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Number of students | 2,024 (2009) |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Navy blue, silver, red, and white |
| Mascot | Blue Devils |
| Rivals | McEachern High School, Harrison High School |
| Newspaper | 'The Pitchfork' |
| Yearbook | The Olympian |
| Website | Marietta High School |
Marietta High School (MHS) is a public high school in the Marietta City Schools system in Marietta, Georgia. The school colors are royal blue, silver, and white and its mascot is the Blue Devil. Marietta High School's main rival schools are Harrison High School and McEachern High School.
Of the 21,786 public high schools examined by U.S. News and its partner in the project, School Evaluation Services, the magazine named MHS a bronze medal winner. Newsweek's 2009 list of America's Top Public High Schools named MHS one of the best high schools in the nation, ranking it among the Top 4% (868 out of the Top 1500) of all high schools in America for the fourth year in a row.
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When Marietta City School district was established in 1892, there were two main high schools, Marietta High School (for white students) and Lemon Street High School (for black students). In the late 1960s, the Marietta City School System merged the two schools allowing all students in city of Marietta to attend Marietta High School. Marietta High School has had six locations in the City of Marietta over the past 100 years - Kennesaw Avenue, Waterman Street, Lemon Street, Winn Street, Haynes Street, and the current location, Whitlock Avenue.
Marietta is home to approximately 2,000 students. Within the student body, 42 nationalities are represented - 42% black, 39% white, 12% hispanic and 7% of another ethnicity.
The Marietta High School Marching Blue Devil Band is directed by David DuBose and David Dover. The Band program is currently serving 240 students in the facets of Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Concert and Beginning Bands as well as multiple percussion ensembles and Jazz Bands as well as the Marietta Marching Blue Devils. Only about 100 of the students in the program participate in the marching band program, but this part of the program has seen great success on the field. Todd Boyd is the Percussion instructor at Marietta and Josh Swain is the guard instructor.
The Band Program at the high school also houses the AP Music Theory Courses as well as a basic music theory class for Sophomores and a World Music Studies class. The band program is an integral part of the school's IB program and has seen scores above the World Average for the last 5 years.
The band program features the traditional annual Spectrum Concert in the spring in which all bands from grades 6-12 in the Marietta City Schools come together for one massed concert in the Marietta High School performance gym.
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