Stone Mountain High School is a college preparatory and

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located in

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, United States, near

Stone Mountain Stone Mountain is a quartz monzonite dome Inselberg, monadnock and the site of Stone Mountain Park, east of Atlanta, Georgia. Outside the park is the small city of Stone Mountain, Georgia. The park is the most visited tourist site in the state o ...

and in the

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History

It is one of the oldest high schools in the

DeKalb County School District The DeKalb County School District (DCSD) is a school district headquartered at 1701 Mountain Industrial Boulevard in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, near Stone Mountain and in the Atlanta metropolitan area. DCSD operates p ...

Notable alumni

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, professional rapper, singer, and songwriter * Robert Carswell, former professional football player for the

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, professional football player for the

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, Rap trio *

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of the

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and the Euroleague *

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, actress and singer, top ten finalist on ''American Idol'' * D. Richard Hipp,

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and the primary author of

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* Connie Johnson, former professional baseball player for the

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and

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References

External links

Stone Mountain High School
* DeKalb County School District high schools Stone Mountain 1909 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) Educational institutions established in 1909 {{GeorgiaUS-school-stub