Parkview High School (Georgia)
| Parkview High School | |
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Panorama of the front of the main building, August 2013
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| Location | |
| 998 Cole Drive Lilburn, Georgia 30047 United States |
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| Coordinates | 33°51′34″N 84°06′50″W / 33.859481°N 84.113928°WCoordinates: 33°51′34″N 84°06′50″W / 33.859481°N 84.113928°W |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1976 |
| School district | Gwinnett County Public Schools |
| Principal | David T. Smith |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 2,823 |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Orange and white, and accent Blue |
| Athletics conference | GHSA AAAAAAA |
| Mascot | Panther |
| Newspaper | The Parkview Pantera |
| Website | Parkview High School |
Parkview High School is a public high school located near Lilburn in Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States. It is operated by Gwinnett County Public Schools. Since its opening in 1976, Parkview has won numerous awards and state championships, both in academics and athletics. The school has had an ongoing rivalry with neighboring Brookwood High School since the 1990s. Parkview offers several AP courses and has a large number of gifted students. The current principal is David T. Smith.
During the early 1970s, Gwinnett County led the US in growth. This phenomenal growth rate produced overcrowding in its school systems, leaving South Gwinnett High School and Berkmar High School too overcrowded to accommodate excess student populations. In 1975, construction began on a new school. The students chose a panther as their school mascot, with orange and white as their school's colors, and blue as an accent color. The school was named "Parkview" after Stone Mountain Park. The doors opened in 1976 with Bartow Jenkins as its first principal.
The school expanded, both in area and number of students, until it was filled above capacity in the early to mid-1990s. In 2005, Parkview took over the then adjacent Trickum Middle School to create more space for its rapidly expanding population. The old Trickum Middle School building was reinstated as the "9th Grade Academy," and many freshman courses were relocated there. In moving classes to the new building, the school eliminated all of the nearly 70 trailers that had been used as annex partition on the school's property for the past decade.
Parkview has an average SAT score of 1557, making it one of the top 25 schools in the state. Its graduation rate is 88.5 percent.
Brookwood High School opened in 1981 out of the Parkview and South Gwinnett school districts, but it was 10 years before a rivalry between Parkview and Brookwood emerged. The schools have been rivals in everything from sports to academics since the 1990s and were even featured on the Great American Rivalry Series.
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