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DeKalb County Schools is the Home of Champions!

email link icon Horace Dunson [ horace_c_dunson_jr@fc.dekalb.k12.ga.us ], Director
5829 Memorial Drive
Stone Mountain, GA  30083
678.676.1821

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A strong sports program is a vital part of student life and provides a balance with academics, which the students need for a well-rounded high school experience. Young bodies need physical exercise, and students also learn to work together as a team in many of the sports programs offered. Basketball, football, track and cheerleading are offered at the middle school level, and eighth graders can participate on the junior varsity level at the high schools, if a sport is not offered for them in the middle school.

DeKalb County Schools is home to 281 state championships dating as far back as the 1938 literary state title won by Lithonia. Clarkston won the first athletic state championship in 1940, as the boys basketball title came home to DeKalb County Schools. The school system went 11 years without a title until Druid Hills won the 1951 boys track title to start a string of 48 consecutive years with at least one state title coming home to DeKalb County Schools.

The streak ended in 1999 as no state titles were won, and a new streak began in 2001 as Lakeside won the boys tennis title to start the current streak of 12 years. The 281 state titles have come from 23 different schools, (seven of which are no longer in existence) and the Adapted Sports Programs. Lakeside leads the way with 41 state titles, with Dunwoody a distant second with 25 state titles to the school's credit. Southwest DeKalb and Tucker are tied for third with 20 each while Druid Hills holds 19 state titles and Columbia 17 to round out the Top five.

Boys' track has outshone the other sports in the school system bringing home 41 state titles, while girls' track follows with 28. Wrestling has third highest total with 26 followed by basketball (boys and girls combined) and girls' gymnastics with 20 each and boys' cross country round out the Top 5 with 19 state titles.

A high of eleven state titles for the school system came in 1981. The school system won 10 in a year twice, 1970 and 1983. The school system won six state championships three consecutive seasons in 2008, 2009, and 2010.

DeKalb County Schools athletics continues to add to the trophy case in 2011-12, with six team state titles and 16 individual state champion


Current Participating Schools and State Titles

  • Arabia Mountain (0)
  • Cedar Grove (3)
  • Chamblee (10)
  • Clarkston (4)
  • Columbia (17)
  • Cross Keys (2)
  • Druid Hills (19)
  • Dunwoody (25)
  • Lakeside (41)
  • Lithonia (7)
  • Martin Luther King Jr. (1)
  • McNair (0)
  • Miller Grove (6)
  • Redan (15)
  • Southwest DeKalb (20)
  • Stephenson (7)
  • Stone Mountain (4)
  • Towers (3)
  • Tucker (20
Adapted Sports
  • JV wheelchair basketball (1)
  • Varsity wheelchair basketball (1)
Former Schools
  • Avondale (13)
  • Briarcliff (16)
  • Gordon (15)
  • Henderson (4)
  • Peachtree (8)
  • Sequoyah (6)
  • Shamrock (3)
  • Walker (9)
2012 Individual State Titles (16)
Wrestling (1)
  • Gabriel Echols, SR, Southwest DeKalb, 285 LB Division, Class AAAA State Champion, 36-0 record
Track – Girls (10)
  • Felicia Brown, SR, Martin Luther King Jr., 200 Meter Dash (23.78), 400 Meter Dash (53.89, fastest time in GA in 2012) – Class AAAAA
  • Tatiyana Caffey, SO, Miller Grove, 800 Meter Run (2:17.24) – Class AAAA
  • Nikkia Jefferson, SR, Redan, 300 Meter Hurdles (43.44) – Class AAAA
  • Alex Cameron, SO, Dunwoody, 1600 Meter Run (5:03.86) – Class AAAA
  • Kenya Wheeler, JR, Southwest DeKalb, Shot Put (41-01.50) – Class AAAA
  • Redan, 4x100 Meter Relay (47.90) – Class AAAA
  • Dunwoody, 4x400 Meter Relay (3:49.32) – Class AAAA
  • Martin Luther King Jr. 4x100 Meter Relay (47.90, set state record in prelims of 45.69), 4x400 Meter Relay (3:47.69)
Track - Boys (5)
  • Jordan Moore, SR, Martin Luther King Jr., 110 Meter Hurdles (13.45) - Class AAAAA
  • Tamarick Johnson, SR, Stone Mountain, 200 Meter Dash (21.38), 400 Meter Dash (47.54) - Class AAA (second consecutive year to win both races)
  • Quincy Tiller, Sr, Towers, Triple Jump (46-03.75) - Class AAA
  • Stone Mountain 4x400 Relay (3:15.28) - Class AAA (new Class AAA state record)
2012 Team State Titles (6)
Football (1)
  • Tucker (15-0), Class AAAA State Champions, defeated Lovejoy 22-7 for second sate title in four years
Basketball (4)
  • Columbia (31-1), Class AAA Boys' State Champions, defeated Charles Drew 65-46 for third consecutive Class AAA championship and fifth in seven seasons
  • Columbia (24-5), Class AAA Girls' State Champions, defeated defending state champion and previsously undefeated Washington County 57-33 for the team's second Class AAA state title in three seasons
  • Miller Grove (24-9), Class AAAA Boys' State Champions, defeated Southwest DeKalb 53-47 for the Wolverines to become just the third school in Georgia history to win four consecutive state titles
  • Miller Grove (25-4), Class AAAA Girls' State Champions, defeated Southwest DeKalb 46-39 to win the school's first ever girls' basketball state title
Track (1)
  • Redan, Class AAAA Girls' State Champions, defeated Southwest DeKalb 58-41 for school's second state track title