GHSA Moves Marietta West
The Blue Devils' new region will group them with schools in West and South Cobb and separate them from East Cobb.
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The new regions the Georgia High School Association announced Tuesday will switch Marietta High's ties from east to west while turning Osborne toward the north and east.
Meanwhile, the Walker School will remain in the smallest-enrollment classification, A, in a subregion of 6-A with Darlington, Mount Paran Christian, Mount Pisgah, Mount Zion-Carrollton, North Cobb Christian, Southwest Atlanta Christian and Whitefield Academy.
The new regions are part of the GHSA’s move from five classifications to six.
A primary reason for the GHSA's change is to cut travel time, the association says on its website. “The Reclassification Committee continued to emphasize that viewpoint by establishing sub-regions in nearly every region.”
It will be up to the principals of the high schools in each region to decide whether to compete based on those subregions or to play schedules across the full region.
Marietta shouldn't have to worry about subregions, but the Blue Devils will have to learn the directions to a new set of region rivals.
Instead of Wheeler, Walton, Lassiter, Cherokee, Etowah and Woodstock to the east and north, Marietta will be grouped the next two years in the new Region 4-AAAAAA with Kennesaw Mountain, North Cobb, Harrison, Campbell, Pebblebrook, McEachern, South Cobb and Hillgrove.
Meanwhile, Osborne will be hitting the roads Marietta is using now to get to the schools in its new region, the 11-school 7-AAAAA, which is largely a combination of the current Region 5-AAAA North and Region 7-AAAA.
The new alignment cuts Osborne’s regional ties to the high schools in Paulding and Douglas counties.
Instead, the Cardinals will be in a subregion with Cobb schools Kell, Sprayberry and Pope, plus Riverwood in Sandy Springs and the new north Fulton high school, Cambridge.
The other subregion consists of Cherokee County’s Creekview and Sequoyah, Forsyth Central, North Springs in Sandy Springs, and Northview in Johns Creek.
Schools have until noon Dec. 16 to ask for a lateral move from Tuesday’s arrangement; the GHSA’s Reclassification Committee will hear those appeals Dec. 19. The new regions go into effect at the start of the 2012-13 school year.
What do you think of the new regions for Marietta, Osborne and Walker?
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R.L. Osborne High School
2451 Favor Rd SW, Marietta, GA -
The Walker School
700 Cobb Pkwy N, Marietta, GA -
Mount Paran Christian School
1275 Stanley Rd NW, Kennesaw, GA -
North Cobb Christian School
4500 Lakeview Dr NW, Kennesaw, GA -
Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy
3911 Campbellton Rd SW, Atlanta, GA -
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Wheeler High School
375 Holt Rd NE, Marietta, GA -
Walton High School
1590 Bill Murdock Rd, Marietta, GA -
Lassiter High School
2600 Shallowford Rd, Marietta, GA (2601 Shallowford Rd, Marietta, GA 30066) -
Cherokee High School
930 Marietta Hwy, Canton, GA -
Etowah High School
6565 Putnam Ford Dr, Woodstock, GA -
Woodstock High School
2010 Towne Lake Hills South Dr, Woodstock, GA -
Kennesaw Mountain High School
1898 Kennesaw Due West Rd NW, Kennesaw, GA -
North Cobb High School
3400 Old 41 Hwy NW, Kennesaw, GA -
Harrison High School
4500 Due West Rd NW, Kennesaw, GA -
Campbell High School
5265 Ward St SE, Smyrna, GA -
Pebblebrook High School
991 Old Alabama Rd SW, Mableton, GA -
McEachern High School
2400 New Macland Rd, Powder Springs, GA -
South Cobb High School
1920 Clay Rd, Austell, GA -
Hillgrove High School
4165 Luther Ward Rd, Powder Springs, GA -
Kell High School
4770 Lee Waters Rd, Marietta, GA -
Sprayberry High School
2525 Sandy Plains Rd, Marietta, GA -
Pope High School
3001 Hembree Rd NE, Marietta, GA -
Riverwood International Charter School
5900 Heards Dr NW, Atlanta, GA -
Creekview High School
1550 Owens Store Rd, Canton, GA -
Sequoyah High School
4485 Hickory Rd, Canton, GA -
Forsyth Central High School
520 Tribble Gap Rd, Cumming, GA -
North Springs Charter High School
7447 Roswell Rd NE, Atlanta, GA -
Northview High School
10625 Parsons Rd, Johns Creek, GA
