Coosa High School is a public high school in
unincorporated Floyd County,
Georgia, United States, with a
Rome
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, Georgia postal address. A part of the
Floyd County School District
The Floyd County School District was founded in 1888 and is a public school district in Floyd County, Georgia, Floyd County, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States. Its headquarters has a Rome, Georgia, Rome postal address but lies outside ...
, it serves the areas of
Garden Lakes
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,
Cave Spring,
Alto Park
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, and
Coosa Valley Coosa may refer to:
* Coosa, Mississippi
* Coosa River
* Coosa County, Alabama
* Coosa chiefdom, which was visited by Hernando de Soto.
* Coosa High School
Coosa High School is a public high school in unincorporated area, unincorporated Floyd Count ...
.
About
The school colors are black and white. Since May 2021, the principal is Judson Cox, who was preceded by LaDonna Turrentine in the role.
Coosa High School receives
Title 1 funding.
In 2022,
U.S. News & World Report placed Coosa High School 240 of the 476 high schools in Georgia, and 10,511 out of 17,245 high schools nationally.
In 2020–2021, the total minority enrollment is 41%, and 66% of students at the school are economically disadvantaged.
History
Social justice issues
In 2021, the school garnered national attention when four white students were filmed at the school carrying the
Confederate flag
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and using racial slurs on themed "farm day", and the school took no action against these students.
A group of racially mixed students planned a protest and the school suspended several of the planners. All of the suspended students were black.
Reports of racism by teachers and some white students against African-American students at Coosa High School, and the refusal of the Floyd County School District to take disciplinary action against the racist behavior have resulted in the school district and board of education in Floyd County being sued by the students and mothers of the students. The civil lawsuit also cites the incident of students wearing
Black Lives Matter
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T-shirts have been suspended, despite the fact the school has taken no action against racist students who used racial slurs against African-American or students who carried the Confederate flag on school grounds.
Notable alumni
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Mike Glenn
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College career
Moving on to Southern Illinois University, Glenn was an All-Missouri Valley Conference college basketball player, gra ...
- professional basketball player
* Diane Harbin - community organizer
*
Bernard Holsey
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- professional football player
*
Chris Jones - professional football player
References
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Public high schools in Georgia (U.S. state)
Schools in Floyd County, Georgia