Newnan High School


Newnan High School is a high school in southwestern Coweta County, Georgia, United States. It is located south of Newnan's historic downtown district. NHS is the oldest of the three Coweta County high schools.
Founded in 1918 as the first high school in Newnan, NHS was a Southern Accredited School by 1919. Newnan High School has been a School of Excellence three times.
Newnan offers four diploma choices: College Prep with Distinction, College Prep, Career/Technical with Distinction, and Career/Technical. Students may also choose a dual diploma program with both college prep and career/tech seals.
Feeder schools include Evans Middle School, Smokey Road Middle School, and Madras Middle School. Madras also feeds into the nearby Northgate High School.
NHS' school mascot is the Cougars.

Athletics

NHS' athletic programs compete with a wide variety of schools. It takes great pride in its programs, which include football, soccer, baseball, gymnastics, cheerleading, track, volleyball, wrestling, tennis, swimming, softball, lacrosse, basketball, golf, cross country, and marching band.
NHS' football program has achieved many region championships in the AAAAA class. The most recent was their varsity football team reaching the State Semi-Finals, but losing to Northside-Warner Robins High School.
The Cougars have produced many basketball championships and are a constant Elite 8 competitor in baseball.

Notable alumni

Some scenes of the FEMA camps in The Walking Dead episode "Save The Last One", were shot in and near NHS.
The High School Scene of the Christmas themed Slasher film Santa's Slay was filmed there.
The opening scene of Ben Coccio's drama film Zero Day was filmed outside the building in 2003.