comprehensive high school
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Buford, Georgia
Buford is a city in Gwinnett County, Georgia, Gwinnett and Hall County, Georgia, Hall counties in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city had a population of 17,144. Most of th ...
. It is the only high school in the Seckinger cluster of the
Gwinnett County Public Schools
The Gwinnett County Public Schools is a school district operating in Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States. GCPS is the largest school system in Georgia,public school. Jones Middle School, which feeds into Seckinger High School, is also a part of the Seckinger cluster along with three elementary schools.
The school has an
artificial intelligence
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theme, with artificial intelligence,
machine learning
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, and
data science
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curriculums to prepare students for careers in technology-related sectors. The school offers four different career-based sets of classes: advanced sciences and technology, international and civic leadership, art and design, or a personalized hybrid track.
History
Seckinger High School is named after former Gwinnett County School Board member Dan Seckinger, who served on the board for 24 years. There was controversy around the naming of the school in part because in 2018 Seckinger voted to name the school after himself during his final meeting as board member. The school board did not follow their own school naming process when choosing the name, as the Board has longstanding rules against naming schools after current and recently serving board members.
The school's architecture was designed by Atlanta-based architecture firm
Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart
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.
The opening of the high school created approximately 200 new jobs.
Sports
Seckinger High School is part of the
Georgia High School Association
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's Region 8-4A.
Prior to the school's opening, the school received a
flag football
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grant in April 2022 from the
Atlanta Falcons
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, the
Arthur M. Blank
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Blank owns three professional sports teams based in Atlanta, Georgia, the Atlanta ...
Family Foundation, and
Nike, Inc.
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to help establish a flag football program for the school.