HISTORY OF SPRAYBERRY HIGH SCHOOL
Sprayberry High School is located in northeastern Marietta, Ga on Sandy Plains Road. It is a comprehensive senior high school (grades 9-12) with approximately 1700 students. It opened in 1952 and moved to its current location in 1973. Sprayberry is a microcosm of Cobb County in that it serves students from a variety of ethnic groups, religions, socio-economic levels, and academic abilities. Elementary schools feeding into Sprayberry are Blackwell, Addison, Kincaid, Bells Ferry, Mount View, Chalker and Keheley. Middle schools feeding upcoming students into Sprayberry are McCleskey, Daniell, and Simpson. The school mascot is the Yellowjacket affectionately known as “Buzz”. (photo courtesy of facebook.com/oldmarietta)
Sprayberry High School opened to students the day after Labor Day in 1952. It was founded in the building now occupied by The Walker School which is a private school, on Cobb Parkway in Marietta at the north corner of Allgood Road.
Sprayberry is now located on the west corner of Sandy Plains Road at Piedmont Road. The exposed-aggregate concrete and dark brick of the original building is an example of the architecture common at the time.
Since then, the area historically known as Sandy Plains has now come to be known as Sprayberry, stretching somewhat northeast from the intersection to Post Oak Tritt Road, and to the Sprayberry post office at Ebenezer Road. Several other businesses bear the name.
The campus football stadium was one of a few local schools’ used in filming Remember the Titans, released in 2000.
William Paul W.P. Sprayberry
The school is named after long time Cobb County Educator, Principal, Superintendent and Administrator William Paul “W.P.” Sprayberry (1900-1971).
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