Perry High

School Mission Statement

Mission:  All students will earn a high school diploma.
Vision:  Perry High School will be the standard of excellence, producing high achieving students.

Interesting Facts/Trivia/Awards

• 1989 and 1996 Georgia School of Excellence
• 2009 Title I Distinguished School and has made adequate yearly progress for three consecutive years.
• Senator Sam Nunn, Representative Larry Walker, Deborah Roberts, Earl Cheek, and Casey Hayward are graduates of Perry High.
• Aurelia Evans wrote the School Alma Mater.
• Media Center was named for Cohen Walker, former PHS Ag Teacher and HCBOE Board Chairman.
• The gym was named for Eric P. Staples, former PHS Principal.  Eric Staples was also the basketball coach with a lifetime record of 924 wins and only 198 loses.  Staples' saying: "If you want to succeed, you gotta pay the price!"
• Coach Fessor Staples was America's all-time winnings high school coach until 1990 (25 years after he retired).

Basketball State Championships

1947, 1949, 1953, 1956, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966

Boys Basketball Team, 1949-1950

• Coach Fessor Staples
• Assistant Coach Bob Schuler
• Buddy Batchelor
• Mac Peyton
• Bobby Satterfield
• Billy Gray
• Seabie Hickson
• Jack Hardy
• David Gray
• Hershel Lawhorn
• Hershal Thompson
• Bobby Brooks
• Mgr. Pete Carlisle

Boys Basketball Team, 1955-1956

• Coach Eric Staples
• Assistant Coach Frank Holland
• Jimmy Beatty
• Bennett Mauldin
• Virgil Peavy
• Sam Nunn
• Percy Hardy
• Ed Beckham
• Marvin Griffin
• Terry Griffin
• Ralph Dorsett
• Mgr. Horace Evans

One Act (included in Literary prior to 2000)

State AAAA: 2009, 2013, 2015

Literary

State Literary Champions: 1961 (B); 1962 (B); 1966 (A)

FFA

• State: Meat Evaluation 2007-2008
• State: Senior Meat Evaluation, 2010-2011 and 2014-2015
• State: Junior Meat Evaluation, 2014-2015
• State: Senior Nursery Landscaping, 2010-2011 and 2014-2015
• State: Floriculture, 2011-2012 and 2014-2015
• State: Grand Champion Heifer and Steer, 2014-2015
• National: 1st in Nursery Landscaping, 2007-2008 and 2014-2015
• National: Floriculture, 2010-2011

School Principal History

Eric P. Staples: 1933 - 1969

Hubert Hutcherson: 1969 - 1972

Malcolm Marchman: 1972 - 1985

Phil Smith: 1985 - 1999 (Dec)

Bobby Griffin: 2000 - 2004

Darryl Albritton: 2004 - 2016

Wesley "Del" Martin:  2016 - present



Completed School Improvements/ Renovations

1956: Gym Addition
1958: Ag Building Addition
1960: 9 Classroom Addition
1968: 7 Classroom Addition and Woodshop Addition
1970: Fieldhouse Addition
1975: Cafeteria & Library Addition
1984: Vocational Building Added
1988: New Roof for Fieldhouse
1989: HVAC & Electrical Upgrades
1990: New Auditorium, Renovations
1994: Weight Room Addition
1998: Baseball Field Lights Installed
1999: New Roof
2004: New Multipurpose Facility Added
2006: Admin, Media and Science Classroom Additions
2007: Bleacher Expansion + Soccer Field Lighting & Sitework
2008: Stadium Track and Drainage