Mill Creek High School

Mill Creek High School
Address
Map
4400 Braselton Hwy

Hoschton
,
Georgia
30548

United States
Coordinates34°04′44″N 83°52′43″W / 34.078848°N 83.878602°W / 34.078848; -83.878602
Information
School typePublic
MottoHawks Soar
Established2004
School districtGwinnett County Public Schools
PrincipalJason Lane
Staff165.90 (FTE)[1]
Grades9–12
Enrollment2,839 (2022–23)[1]
Student to teacher ratio17.11[1]
Color(s)   
Cardinal, Vegas gold, and navy
MascotHarvey the Hawk
RivalsDacula High School
Mountain View High School
NewspaperThe Mill Creek Chronicle
Websitewww.millcreekhs.com

Mill Creek High School is a high school in Hoschton, Georgia, United States. It serves the unincorporated area (not in any city limits) of Hamilton Mill, Gwinnett County, a suburb of Atlanta, as well as the Gwinnett County portion of Braselton.[2][3] It also serves unincorporated areas such as zip codes 30548, 30019, 30542, 30517 and 30519. It has 3,997 students, and the most recent attendance counts have named it the largest school in Georgia.[4] It is fed only by Frank N. Osborne Middle School, as Glenn C. Jones Middle School now feeds into Seckinger High School, opened in 2022.[5]

Mill Creek was named for the fourth consecutive year as one of the schools in the top 5% in the country with regard to academics and test results.[6]

In August 2004, Mill Creek opened with 2,500 students.[7] It now enrolls a little under 4,000 students, and 292 staff members. It has 53 trailers around the school to provide enough space for its many students.[citation needed] By 2018 the school, which had 3,724 students that year, had been consistently the largest high school in Georgia by student population.[8]

Mill Creek has over 100 student clubs.[9]

  1. ^ a b c "Mill Creek High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Archived from the original on November 28, 2018. Retrieved May 7, 2020.
  2. ^ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Gwinnett County, GA" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved May 7, 2023. - Text list
  3. ^ "Mill Creek Cluster 2024-2025". Gwinnett County Public Schools. Retrieved September 7, 2024.
  4. ^ "Mountain View graduates first-ever class". Southern Community Newspapers. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Retrieved July 28, 2010.
  5. ^ Pharr, Alia. "New Gwinnett high school brings tech curriculum update". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
  6. ^ "Mill Creek High School - principal". Archived from the original on July 27, 2010. Retrieved August 18, 2010.
  7. ^ "Mill Creek High School - index". Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved October 11, 2007.
  8. ^ Coyne, Amanda C. (August 28, 2018). "Here are Gwinnett County's largest high schools". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Archived from the original on January 10, 2019. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
  9. ^ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, August 30, 2007 Thursday, NEWS; Pg. 1A, 625 words, LAURA DIAMOND; Staff