Brookwood High School (Snellville, Georgia)
| Brookwood High School | |
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| Location | |
| 1255 Dogwood Road Snellville, Georgia 30078 United States |
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| Coordinates | 33°53′02″N 84°02′25″W / 33.883764°N 84.04035°WCoordinates: 33°53′02″N 84°02′25″W / 33.883764°N 84.04035°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Motto | A Tradition of Excellence |
| Established | 1981 |
| School district | Gwinnett County Public Schools |
| Principal | William "Bo" Ford Jr. |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 3,421 |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Maroon and gold |
| Mascot | Bronco |
| Accreditation | SACS |
| Region 8 | (GHSA) |
| Website | Brookwood High School |
Brookwood High School is an American public secondary school in Snellville, Georgia with a student body of 3,421. Brookwood serves several areas of Gwinnett County, including Snellville, Lawrenceville, and Lilburn.
School hours are 7:24 am to 2:10 pm. Students arrive on over 40 different buses at 6:55 each morning. Every Tuesday and Thursday, students have "Extended Lunch," in which they have one hour for lunch rather than a thirty-minute study hall (called guided study) and a thirty-minute lunch.
Bo Ford is the principal of Brookwood High School.
Planning for Brookwood High School was started in 1977 to lessen the overcrowding of nearby South Gwinnett High School and Parkview High School. A committee of educators from Gwinnett County met to create and discuss specifications for the facility. The school officially opened in 1981 under principal Emmett Lawson.
The school derived its name from its location on the intersection of Holly Brook Road (a section of this road is now Webb Gin House Road) and Dogwood Road. A committee of three students selected the school mascot and the colors of maroon and gold, which were based on the colors of Florida State University. The original school mascot had a horseshoe around the bronco, which was later removed. The original mascot was a drawing of an entire bronco, but the current logo uses only a bronco's head. The runner-up mascot choice was the Bruins, and the second place color scheme was baby blue and gold.
All but one of the Brookwood Cluster Schools were recognized by the Governor Sonny Perdue for outstanding academic achievement in 2010.
Brookwood hosted Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on March 4, 2012, before the Georgia primary.
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