Woodland High School is a

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Bartow County, Georgia Bartow County is located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 108,901, up from 100,157 in 2010. The county seat is Cartersville. Traditionally considered part of northwest Georgia, B ...

, United States, serving grades 9 through 12. Student enrolment in 2019 was 1,511.

History

Woodland High School was founded in 1997, the third high school built in

Bartow County Bartow County is located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 108,901, up from 100,157 in 2010. The county seat is Cartersville. Traditionally considered part of northwest Georgia, B ...

. It is located on a 121-acre campus in the foothills of the

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, on the

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. The school's founder and first principal was Nettie Holt.

Academics

In 2019 Woodland High School had a graduation rate of 83%, the highest among Bartow County's high schools. In 2017, 13% of Woodland High School students were enrolled in least one

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(AP) course during the school year; the median across high schools that offer AP courses in Georgia was 16%. 12% of students of Woodland High School were learning-disabled, slightly above the median of 11% across high schools in Georgia. Woodland High School's average SAT score is 1,469 compared to Georgia's 1,407. The school's average ACT score is 20, which mirrors the state average. Advanced Placement courses are offered in Social Studies, Sciences and Mathematics. Woodland also has courses and programs in health sciences, agriculture, physical exercise, criminal justice, foreign languages, band/color guard, chorus, dance, drama, and theatre.

Student demographics

As of 2019, Woodland's student body was 77.7% White, 6.2% African American, 12.9% Hispanic, 0.3% Asian, 0.1% American Indian and 2.1% two or more races. 44% of Woodland's students are eligible to participate in the

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(NSLP). Woodland High School's student body was 51% female, 49% male in 2013.

Campus facilities

Woodland's main classroom building houses the front offices, nurse's office, weight room, dance room, cafeteria, campus police, two gyms, and the newly built 9th Grade Academy. Students first attended the free-standing 9th Grade Academy in the 2009-10 school year. It is a two-story building which can hold 100-125 students. Woodland High School is home to Cartersville's Performing Arts Center (PAC). The PAC seats 1,000 guests and includes a vast pre-function lobby space, two ticket/concession windows, and a large backstage rooms for mounting big stage productions. The Woodland PAC has hosted the Miss Georgia USA Pageants and many other musical, theatrical, and ballet performances. While basketball games and classes are held in both gyms, the main gym hosts the varsity basketball games, wrestling matches, cheerleading competitions, and other ceremonies. The school's outdoor athletic facilities include the football/soccer field and their practice field; baseball and softball fields; the tennis courts and the track; and the field house, where athletes change clothes, prepare for games and meets, and where the football coaches' offices are.

Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade

On November 22, 2018, Woodland High School's Wildcat Marching Band represented the

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in the 92nd Annual

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. The three-hour Macy's event is held in

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starting at 9:00 a.m.

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, and has been televised nationally on

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since 1952. Woodland High School previously performed in the 2013 Macy's Holiday Parade at

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Athletics

Woodland High School's athletics are in Classification AAAAA and in Region 7 as of the 2014-15 school year.

Interscholastic sports

Fall * Boys' cross country * Girls' cross country *

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Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

Softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

Cheerleading Cheerleading is an activity in which the participants (called cheerleaders) cheer for their team as a form of encouragement. It can range from chanting slogans to intense physical activity. It can be performed to motivate sports teams, to ente ...

Winter * Boys'

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

* Girls'

* Boys'

swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

* Boys'

diving Diving most often refers to: * Diving (sport), the sport of jumping into deep water * Underwater diving, human activity underwater for recreational or occupational purposes Diving or Dive may also refer to: Sports * Dive (American football), a ...

* Girls' swimming * Girls' diving *

Wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...

Spring *

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

* Boys'

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

* Girls' tennis * Boys'

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

* Girls' soccer *

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Achievements

Woodland's golf team won the Region 5-AAAAA golf tournament in 2013. The Woodland Lady Wildcats girls' soccer team set a record with most wins in a season with their 7-0 victory over Hiram in 2013. In 2011, the Wildcat Marching Band represented

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in the

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. In 2011, Woodland High School was chosen as High 5 Sports Team of The Week and was filmed live on Good Day

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after winning with over 44,000 votes.

References

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