Johns Creek High School
Johns Creek High School is a public high school in Johns Creek, Georgia, United States, serving grades 9–12. The school is a part of the Fulton County School System. Its students primarily reside inside the city of Johns Creek, though the school also serves part of Alpharetta. Students from Autrey Mill Middle School attend Johns Creek. The school was opened in the fall of 2009 and as of 2017 has an enrollment around 2,076.
In 2013, Johns Creek was ranked by Newsweek as one of America's best public high schools, #214 in the nation, #5 in the State of Georgia and #2 in Fulton County.
As of 2019, Johns Creek High School has 2,142 students enrolled: 44 percent of which are minority students. The student-to-teacher ratio is 20:1. It is ranked 397th nationally, 15th in the state of Georgia, and 5th in Fulton County. The schools boasts of a high 97 percent graduation rate.
The school's mascot is the Gladiator.
Athletics
In 2012 Johns Creek came in first place in Region 7AAAA and second in the state in the prestigious Regions Director's Cup, which measures success over all sports. In the 2012 Director's Cup, the JCHS Girls finished in first place in all programs in AAAA.Johns Creek is in Region 6 in Class AAAAAA with geographic rivals Chattahoochee High School, located 2.5 miles away, and Lambert High School, located in nearby Forsyth County. Johns Creek and Chattahoochee share a particularly intense rivalry. Many of Johns Creek's students would be attending Chattahoochee if JCHS had never been built. Many of the athletes were a part of the Chattahoochee "Joe Volpe" feeder programs and played on the same youth sports teams prior to the existence of Johns Creek.
The 2009 cheerleading squad won the AAA State Championship, making JCHS one of the fastest schools to win a state championship in state history. The 2010 boys' tennis team followed, also claiming the AAA State Championship. In the 2011/2012 school year Johns Creek won state championships in both boys' and girls' tennis and were Region Champions or Region Runners-up in baseball, track, football, volleyball, swimming, cheerleading, golf and cross country. In the spring of 2012, five Johns Creek teams won the region championship and both the boys' and girls' tennis teams won the AAAA State Championship.
In 2010 the Johns Creek Volleyball team made the AAAA Final Four before losing to eventual state champion, Pope High School. In 2011 the Johns Creek boys' golf team placed 2nd in the state.
Johns Creek's athletic teams include:
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Cheerleading
- Cross-Country
- Football
- Golf
- Gymnastics
- Lacrosse
- Roller Hockey
- Soccer
- Softball
- Swim/Dive. Led in part by Preston Browne who tallied 6 silver medals at state and was reigning champion in the 100 butterfly for 2 years at county.
- Tennis
- Track
- Volleyball
- Wrestling
Notable alumni
- Allie Buchalski - Professional distance runner
- Jack Coco – American football long snapper and college football player for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
- Zach Gibson – American football quarterback and college football player for the Florida Atlantic Owls