LaGrange High School (Georgia)
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LaGrange, Georgia United States |
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| Coordinates | 33°02′46″N 85°02′04″W / 33.046015°N 85.034382°WCoordinates: 33°02′46″N 85°02′04″W / 33.046015°N 85.034382°W |
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| Type | Public secondary |
| Motto | "Preparing students to excel through Leadership, Honor, and Service" |
| Established | 1903 |
| School district | Troup County School District |
| Principal | Alton White |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 1342 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Color(s) | Royal blue and white |
| Mascot | Granger |
| Website | LaGrange High School |
LaGrange High School, located in LaGrange, Georgia, United States, is a public secondary school serving around 1300 students in the Troup County school system. Founded in 1903, the school is notable for producing several collegiate and professional athletes and was the national champion football team in 1991.
The town and high school derive their name from a connection to the French soldier and statesman, the Marquis de La Fayette, who earned the love and respect of Americans through his service to the United States during the American Revolution.
The school's mascot is recognized as being one of the most uncommon among high schools, the Granger. This leads people to ask, "What is a Granger?" The answer given is, "A Granger is a Champion!"
On the field, in the classroom, and in life, LHS students are champions. Determination, pride, and sportsmanship are the cornerstones of the Granger tradition. In its over 100 years of excellence, LaGrange High School has produced championship teams on all fields of play.
LaGrange is named for the home of the Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette, a French citizen who came to America to support the Revolution. LaFayette, as a guest of the United States Government, made a "Farewell Tour" of the nation from September 1824 until December 1825. During this time he spent two weeks in Georgia with Governor George M. Troup (namesake of the county, town, and school) serving as his official host. He commented how much the community reminded him of his home "La Grange" (French, literally "the barn" but more colloquially a reference to a farm in general). To honor LaFayette the town adopted that name.
In France it is common to use the term "la grange" to indicate a farm, as barns are a common feature. In the melting pot of the United States the French term "grange" (with an anglicized pronunciation) came also to be used colloquially as a name for a farm, and later a granger became a term for a farmer, with this use most common in the US North and Midwest.
The school has never officially used the term Granger to indicate or describe the mascot as a farmer. The most probable origin is that the term was adopted for its alliterative effect with the name LaGrange.
Much like the use of the impossible-to-define term "Hoosier" for a person from Indiana, Granger is less a definitive mascot. Instead it is a nickname not only for the men and women of LaGrange High School, but also for their the standards of excellence, spirit, achievement, and loyalty.
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