Seckinger High School is an American four-year comprehensive high school in Buford, Georgia. It is the only high school in the Seckinger cluster of the Gwinnett County Public Schools System, and opened in August 2022 as a 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 theme, with artificial intelligence, machine learning,
and data science 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 some 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.
The opening of the high
school created approximately 200 new jobs.
Sports
Seckinger High School
is part of the Georgia High School Association's Region 8-4A.
In April 2022 the
school received a flag football grant from the Atlanta Falcons,
the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, and Nike, Inc., to help
establish a flag football program for the school.
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