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Georgia High School Association

High school athletic organization

Field	Value
name	Georgia High School Association
logo	Georgia High School Association Logo.png
map	Map of USA highlighting Georgia.png
msize	250px
abbreviation	GHSA
formation	1904
status	501(c)(3) association (1986)
purpose	Athletics, educational
headquarters	151 S. Bethel St.
Thomaston, GA 30286
region_served	Georgia
membership	457 high schools (2022–2023)
language	English
leader_title	Executive director
leader_name	Gary Phillips
affiliations	National Federation of State High School Associations
num_staff	13
website	ghsa.net
merger	Georgia Interscholastic Association

Thomaston, GA 30286 The Georgia High School Association (GHSA) is an organization that attempts to govern athletics and activities for member high schools in the U.S. state of Georgia. GHSA is a member of the National Federation of State High School Associations. The association has 463 public and private high schools as members. GHSA organizes all sports and academic competitions as well as overseeing registration, training, and approves local area sports officials associations to administer regional athletics and activities per member schools.

Membership

Membership to the GHSA is voluntary and open to every high school in the state of Georgia, although participating private schools must have at least 150 students in their high school. Many private schools that do not enter the GHSA compete in the interscholastic organization of the Georgia Independent School Association (GISA). Member schools of the GHSA make most decisions by appointing region representatives who vote on proposals in the GHSA Executive Committee. Individual decisions by regions are made by the schools in the region on such issues as region tiebreakers and hosting of region tournaments. Members are divided into seven classes by size and then further divided into regions based on geographic locations.

History

At least one prior organization was integrated into the GHSA. The Georgia Interscholastic Association (GIA) was a school sports league in Georgia. It was integrated into the GHSA in 1970.

The Big 7 Conference included large high schools for African American students in Georgia. The GIA was an expansion of this league that came include county high schools around the state.

As If We Were Ghosts is a documentary film made about the GIA and its athletes.

Classifications

Class 5A was created for the 2000-2001 school year.

Competitions

Athletics

Boys athletics governed by the GHSA are: baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, lacrosse, riflery (co-ed), soccer, swimming, tennis, track, and wrestling. Girls athletics programs overseen by the GHSA include basketball, competition cheerleading (co-ed & non co-ed), cross country, golf, gymnastics, lacrosse, riflery, fast pitch softball, slow pitch softball, soccer, swimming, tennis, track, volleyball, and wrestling.

Other

Literary activities administered by the GHSA are dramatic interpretation, essay, debate, extemporaneous speaking, one act plays, quartet, spelling, trio and vocal solo.

The GHSA has also added Esports as an event.

List of schools

For the 2025–2026 season, GHSA has 458 member schools.

Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Count
6A	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	58
5A	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	61
4A	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	61
3A	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	63
2A	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	58
1A DivI	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	{{plainlist	1=	77
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Notes

NFHS

References

GHSA Constitution and By-Laws for 2015-2016
"GIA Heritage: General Information".
"GIA Champions | GHSA.net".
(11 June 2022). "Documentary on Georgia Interscholastic Association will air Monday on GPB".
"'As If We Were Ghosts' set to premiere: GIA documentary to air twice on GPB | News | valdostadailytimes.com".
Taylor, Becky. (18 June 2022). "GIA's 'Ghosts' brought to life in documentary".
"1999-2000 By-Laws".
"2000-2001 By-Laws".
"Esports".
"2025-2026 Region Alignments".

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