About Pope High School
Pope High School
Alan C. Pope High School was founded in 1987. It is a Standard Public School of the State of Georgia and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. In 1989, Pope received the prestigious Georgia Blue Ribbon of Excellence during its second year of operation.
Pope High School has an enrollment of approximately 2,000 students. The student body is very active, with over 50% participating in athletics and 90% participating in extracurricular activities. Approximately 90% of our graduates go on to college; 80% attend four-year colleges and universities while 10% choose two-year colleges. Pope students achieve high scores on the SAT each year and lead Cobb County in GA High School Graduation Test scores.
Students from Hightower Trail Middle School and Dodgen Middle School advance to attend Pope High School.
Pope High School is located at 3001 Hembree Rd NE, Marietta, Georgia - in the beautiful "East Cobb" section of metro Atlanta's Cobb County.
Alan C. Pope
Alan Clayton Pope lived in East Cobb before the huge growth of our county. He attended the old Sprayberry High (now Joseph T. Walker School) and later went to a small Alabama college. Once he graduated, he returned to Cobb County to teach and coach. Four years later, his life was cut short in a tragic auto accident.
What made Alan Pope so special that Cobb county named its newest high school after him? Hal Cochran, Alan Pope's high school coach, wrote that "he was that rare individual that met all challenges with 110%."
He gained All-State, All-Region, and All-County recognition in both basketball and baseball. The honors did not end on the playing fields. He was an honor student who had the qualities that teachers, principals, and students look for when selecting an Atlanta Journal Cup recipient or a Mr. Sprayberry.
As a coach, he brought his sense of fairness and caring to the students on his teams and in his classes. He emphasized that a person should believe in himself and do the very best he could.
Alan Pope's goal for each of his players and students was that he become a well-rounded person. Perhaps that should become the primary goal of each graduate of Pope High School.
