Campbell High School (Smyrna, Georgia)
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5265 Ward Street Smyrna, Georgia 30080 United States |
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| Coordinates | 33°53′21″N 84°31′35″W / 33.889157°N 84.526475°WCoordinates: 33°53′21″N 84°31′35″W / 33.889157°N 84.526475°W |
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| Type | Public High School; International Baccalaureate Magnet School |
| Motto | "Learning Today for Tomorrow's World." |
| Established | 1952 |
| School district | Cobb County School District |
| Principal | Jeanne Walker |
| Teaching staff | 154 (FTE) |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 2,576 (March 3, 2016) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 16.72 |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Blue and Silver |
| Nickname | Spartans |
| Newspaper | The Spartan Chronicles |
| Website | www.cobbk12.org/campbellhs |
Campbell High School is located 5 miles Northwest of Downtown Atlanta. It is located on a rectangular campus in Smyrna, Georgia. It is part of the Cobb County School District. Campbell High School implemented the IB Diploma Program in 1997, serving as a magnet school for the Cobb County School District.
The school was named after Orme Campbell, the mother of the man who donated the land on which the original school was built, with the stipulation that the name of the school could never be changed. Orme Campbell High School opened in 1952 with the merger of Smyrna High School and Fitzhugh Lee High School. It opened with a total of 425 students in grades 8-11.
In 1989, Orme Campbell High School and F.T. Wills High School merged to form Smyrna High School. Prior to the merger, Campbell students were known as the Green and White "Panthers" and Wills students were known as the Red and Black "Tigers". The students united in selecting new colors, royal blue and silver, and a new mascot, the "Spartans".
In 1990, the courts overruled the name change of the school (due to stipulations in the original deed restrictions on the property that the school sited there must be named for the Campbell family), and the name "Campbell High School" was reinstated. Since the ruling pertained only to the school name, it was decided the new colors and the new mascot would be left unchanged. In 1997, the school was relocated to the site of the original Wills High School because of rapid growth, but retained the Campbell name in order to maintain a consistent identity.
The breakdown of the 2,576 students enrolled for the 2015-2016 school year:
By grade: 9th Grade 31.7%; 10th Grade 26.1%; 11th Grade 21.2%; 12th Grade 20.9%.
Source - Cobb County's Diversity Enrollment Data
In Fall of 1997, Campbell implemented the International Baccalaureate Program IB to function as a magnet program in Cobb County. The program, currently under the leadership of Dan Penick and Max Jones, has had extremely high scores on IB exams. The average Campbell IB Exam score is 5.30 compared to 4.79 worldwide. The CHS IB pass rate in 2014 was 98 % and in 2015 was 88%. To compare, in 2014, the pass rate in Georgia was 66%, 76% in the US, and 80% worldwide. In 2015, the pass rate worldwide was 80%.
Students throughout Cobb County apply to the IB program during the fall of their 8th grade year. Cobb County Magnet Programs If accepted, students are enrolled in a rigorous curriculum in 9th and 10th grade during which they complete the majority of the Georgia required courses for graduation. In 11th and 12th grades, the students are enrolled in the IB Diploma curriculum.
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