Quitman County High School is a public high school in the Quitman County School District (Georgia) of Georgetown, Quitman County, Georgia. It was established in July 2009 as the newest, yet one of the smallest, high school in the U.S. state of Georgia. As the newest addition of the K-12 school format that the school district has adopted, it now serves students in grades ninth through twelfth.
The school currently rests on Kaigler Road in Georgetown off of U.S. Hwy. 82. Because of the hill-like topography of the school's location, its students have nicknamed it according to their mascot, "Hornet Hill"; and the school itself the "Hornet Nation."
Since the burning of Georgetown High School in the 1970s, the Quitman County School District (Georgia) had shared its students with the nearby Stewart County High School (formerly Stewart-Quitman High School) in Lumpkin, Georgia to receive their secondary education.
In 2007, the Quitman County Board of Education began partnering with community members and leaders alike to acquire funds for the building of the new school. Because of the city's lack of commercial revenue and its overwhelming dependence on property and sales taxes, this placed an enormous toll on the city/county's low populace.
In 2009, construction on the new high school was complete under the administration of Superintendent William D. Burns.