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Gwinnett County Public Schools

Central Gwinnett High School

Principal: Shane Orr

564 W. Crogan Street, Lawrenceville, GA 30046

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School Highlights

The following school highlights showcase how Central Gwinnett High School is fulfilling Gwinnett County Public School's four strategic priorities of Empathy, Equity, Effectiveness, and Excellence. Visit the School Profile Dashboard to find more detailed data on our school.

  • The School of the Arts at Central Gwinnett (SOTA) program won the Region title in One Act play for the 3rd year in a row. Three students from the program won an all- star cast and best actress award in their performance of The Penelopiad.

  • The Central Gwinnett ladies flag football team continues to be highly competitive in our region. This year our flag football squad won the Jackson EMC Sportsmanship award which exemplifies how our coaches and our athletic program teach our students to not only compete but to be great people of character.

  • School of the Arts at Central Gwinnett (SOTA) students participated in the City of Lawrenceville's "Evening of the Arts". Students gave live painting and pottery demonstrations, student artwork was on display, and SOTA Theater showcased three musical song and dance numbers from various musicals. In addition, SOTA Senior Theatre major Josue Martinez was invited to Los Angeles where he joined the cast of Deaf West Theatre Company's musical stage production of "American Idiot," featuring the music of Green Day.

  • The 2024 volume of Camelot (our school yearbook) was selected from among more than 800 yearbooks submitted to our Marketing Team last summer. Their selection as one of the schools featured in this annual collection is impressive. Through countless hours of work, constant communication and amazing, real-life skills that the editors and staff — along with our outstanding teacher Mrs. Manning— produced such an impressive yearbook.

  • Mrs. Amanda Baker, a CTAE Healthcare teacher at Central Gwinnett High School was awarded the 2025 HOSA Advisor of the Year.  HOSA, or HOSA-Future Health Professionals, is a global student-led organization that focuses on preparing students for careers in the health professions.

  • The Central Gwinnett Dance Conservatory took 21 dancers to Pittsburgh for the 2025 National HS Dance Festival hosted at Point Park University.  For 5 days our dancers took class from the nation's leading dance educators. Classes ranged from ballet, modern, step, contemporary partnering, pas de deux, jazz, applying to college, health and wellness, yoga, and Pilates. We also attended performances by the internationally renowned BODY TRAFFIC dance company and the Point Park Dance ensemble. A highlight of the trip was having our very own ""Black Knight", Christopher Collins.

  • The School of the Arts at Central Gwinnett (SOTA) Theatre TEAM earned Best Overall Production for "Hadestown: Teen Edition" at this year’s Shuler Awards. In our first year to enter the Georgia High School Musical Theatre Awards, the Theatre Department of The School of the Arts @ Central Gwinnett High School (SOTA) earned 10 nominations for the spring musical production of "Hadestown: Teen Edition". Winning this award is a terrific accomplishment and highlights the hard work and talent of our students and staff at SOTA.

  • This year Central Gwinnett held it's 8th annual college signing day for all students who are preparing to enter college or serve our county by joining the armed service.  Over 200 signees were honored in the gym in front of a packed gym of students, parents and community members.  The Gwinnett Daily post ran an article on how special the event was to our school and community.

  • The class of 2025 had the highest number of honor graduates in over a decade with 140 and will boast the highest graduation rate Central Has seen in over 10 years.  The amount of scholarship money awarded to the class of 2025 was the 4th highest total for all high schools Gwinnett County Public Schools.  $12,345,788 was awarded to the class of 2025.

  • Teacher Nakaya Manning was a top 6 finalist for Gwinnett County Public Schools District teacher of the year.  Mrs. Manning did win Teacher of the Year for GCPS High Schools.  This is the second year in a row that Central Gwinnett has had a finalist.  Teacher Jenna Cloninger of Central Gwinnett is currently the Gwinnett County Teacher of the year for the district.  This honor speaks to the excellent quality of teachers that Central Gwinnett has throughout our school.

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