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Creekview to Face New Foes in AAAAA

The GHSA's reclassification won't change much for Cherokee.

and will find some new company athletically next school year when the Georgia High School Association shifts to six classes from the current five.

The Chiefs and Grizzlies are moving from AAAA to AAAAA next year, keeping them in the second-highest class, according to the proposal the GHSA unveiled Monday afternoon.

Meanwhile, not much is likely to change for Cherokee County’s biggest schools, , and , and will enter a new world by moving up in competition from AA to AAAA.

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The GHSA grouped its member schools for the next two years based on their reported enrollments this year from ninth to 11th grade.

All schools have until Dec. 5 to ask to move into a higher classification, usually for geographic convenience. The GHSA will reveal the proposed regions for each class Dec. 6.

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Sequoyah and Creekview are sure to be in the same region again, but the rest of the region will look far different from their current 7-AAAA.

Of the 11 schools in the region, four—, , and —are moving to the top level, AAAAAA, and two—Cass and Northwest Whitfield—are staying in AAAA.

, Rome and are joining the Grizzlies and Chiefs in AAAAA. If they remain in a region together, they’ll need to add three or four other schools. Candidates include Cobb County’s , , and .

In AAAAAA, the new region for Etowah, Woodstock and Cherokee should look a lot like their current 5-AAAAA. All seven teams in that region—, , and are the others—are making the move to AAAAAA.

The only difference is that the region likely will add an eighth team, possibly or .

River Ridge plans to accept the AAAA assignment, the Cherokee Tribune reported. The Knights will find themselves grouped with the likes of , Pickens, Southeast and Northwest Whitfield, Gilmer, and Ridgeland.

The attached PDF file shows all six classifications, including each school’s current or projected enrollment of ninth- to 11th-graders. There are 65 schools in AAAAAA, 71 each in AAAAA and AAAA, 70 in AAA, 66 in AA and 97 in A, although only 71 of the A schools play football.

You can read more about the reclassification from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Score Atlanta.


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