Towers High School

{{Short description|Public high school in Belvedere Park, Georgia, United States}} {{Use American English|date=November 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Infobox school | name = Towers High School | native_name = | image = TowersHighSchoolseal.png | image_size = 185px | logo = | logo_size = | alt = | caption = | motto = "Titan Way" | established = 1963 | closed = | type = Public | status = | category_label = | category = | gender_label = | gender = | affiliation = | affiliations = | administrator = | assst_admin = | president = | chairman_label = | chairman = | rector = | principal = Dr. Stacey Barlow | asst principal = | campus_director = | headmaster = | head_label = Second Master | head = | head_name2 = Assistant Headmaster | head2 = | dean = | founder = | chaplain = | officer_in_charge = | faculty = | teaching_staff = 50.00 (FTE)<ref name="NCES" /> | ratio = 15.38<ref name="NCES" /> | enrollment = 769 (2023–2024)<ref name=NCES>{{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=1301740&SchoolPageNum=9&ID=130174000686|title=Towers High School|publisher=National Center for Education Statistics|accessdate=December 27, 2024}}</ref> | grades_label = | grades = | address = 3919 Brookcrest Circle | city = Decatur, Georgia | state = | province = | country = United States | coordinates = {{Coord|33.747189|-84.236628|display=title,inline|format=dms|type:edu}} | latitude = | longitude = | district = DeKalb County School District | oversight = | accreditation = | campus = | colors = Maroon and white {{Color box|Maroon|border=darkgray}}{{Color box|White|border=darkgray}} | colours = | athletics = | houses = | student_union = | nickname = | mascot = Titans | free_label = Emblem | free_text = | rival = | yearbook = | newspaper = | free_label1 = | free_text1 = | free_label2 = | free_text2 = | free_label3 = | free_text3 = | test_name = | test_average = | national_ranking = | website = {{URL|https://www.towershs.dekalb.k12.ga.us/|towershs.dekalb.k12.ga.us}} | footnotes = | picture = | picture_caption = | picture2 = | picture_caption2 = }} '''Towers High School''' ('''THS''') is a high school in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. It is a part of the DeKalb County School System. It is physically within the Belvedere Park census-designated place,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st13_ga/place/p1306884_belvedere_park/DC10BLK_P1306884_001.pdf|title=2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Belvedere Park CDP, GA|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|accessdate=2020-05-07}} - Compare with the address and with school boundary maps.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dekalb.k12.ga.us/towers/|title=Home|publisher=Towers High School|accessdate=2020-05-07|quote=Towers High School 3919 Brookcrest Circle Decatur, Georgia 30032}} - Please note the school is not actually in [https://www.decaturga.com/planning/page/city-maps-gis the Decatur city limits]: check the address against the map of the CDP.</ref> but has a Decatur postal address.

The school was built in 1963–1964 and currently includes 9th through 12th grades. In 1963, initially attending double sessions at Avondale High School, grades 8-10 moved into the school during the fall. The cafeteria and gymnasium were still to be completed. THS subsequently added a junior and senior class during the next two years. At that time period there were no middle schools, elementary was 1-7 and traditional high schools were 8–12. The first class graduated in 1966 and the first class to complete all five years at the school graduated on June 3, 1968.

==School activities== The school offers activities including Air Force Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (AFJROTC GA-955) National Champions 2001 Armed Regulation Drill, At Club, Beta Club, Career Discovery (Mentoring), Drama Club, Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA), Forensics Club, Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA), Japanese/Anime Club, Literary Magazine, Mu Alpha Theta (Math Club), and National Honor Society.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://schools.dekalb.k12.ga.us/towers/activities.html|title=Tower High School Activities|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515001824/http://schools.dekalb.k12.ga.us/towers/activities.html|date=2008-05-15|archive-date=2008-05-15}}</ref>

== Athletics == {{Unreferenced section|date=May 2025}} The school's sports teams are named the Titans.

Towers High School recently re-formed a tennis and volleyball team.

The football team currently plays at Avondale Stadium.

== Notable alumni == * Jan Hooks, ''Saturday Night Live'' actor, attended, did not graduate * Michael W. Jackson, Alabama District Attorney * Jacquees, American R&B singer and songwriter{{citation needed|reason=attendance|date=November 2021}} * Ricky Jones, professional baseball player * Richard Jewell, security guard credited with heroism during the Centennial Olympic Park bombing, later received international attention when he was falsely accused of perpetrating the bombing himself<ref>{{cite web |last1=Freeman |first1=Scott |title=Presumed Guilty |url=https://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/presumed-guilty/ |website=Atlanta Magazine |date=1 December 1996 |quote=Jewell went to Towers High School, in Dekalb County}}</ref> *Dar'shun Kendrick, politician<ref name="Georgia House bio">{{cite web|title=Rep. Dar'shun Kendrick|url=http://www.house.ga.gov/Documents/Biographies/kendrickDar'shun.pdf|publisher=Georgia House of Representatives|access-date=8 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927141359/http://www.house.ga.gov/Documents/Biographies/kendrickDar'shun.pdf|archive-date=27 September 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> * C. J. Marable, professional football player * Da'Norris Searcy, professional football player * Julius Williams, professional football player * Devonte Wyatt, professional football player * Christy J. Monfort, also known as Christy ANA®, a former Atlanta girl group member (2011) known as ‘A1 Misses’, currently signed to Bentley Records LLC., (2019-2026) as a music recording artist and songwriter. Christy ANA® also has ties to distribution under (FUGA-UMG) Universal Music Group & (VMG) Virgin Music Group, including ROC Nation EQ. She is also a former classically trained dancer & choreographer, a serial entrepreneur & author of ‘The Great Awakening; God’s Guided Faith’.

== References == <references /> 7 Stacey Barlow https://www.instagram.com/p/DMIhYWtRJLf/?igsh=ZWJkazBicnlzc2xq

==External links== * [https://www.towershs.dekalb.k12.ga.us/ Towers High School]

Category:DeKalb County School District high schools Category:1963 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) Category:Educational institutions established in 1963