ANOTHER LEVEL

Consider the following, keeping in mind GHSA’s Class AAAAA did not have private schools until the 2020-21 school year:

› In baseball, since 2013 private schools have won five AAA titles, four AA titles and two AAAA titles.

› In basketball, since 2013 private school girls’ programs have won six titles in AA to AAAA, with boys’ programs winning eight.

› In cross country, only four public schools have won titles in AAA and AAAA since 2012 among the 54 girls’ and boys’ state meets. From 2000 to 2011, private schools won 74 of 96 titles in those classes.

› In golf, private school girls’ programs have won seven titles in the past eight years in AA through AAAA (championships were not held in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic). On the boys’ side during that same time, private schools have won 17 of 24 titles in AA, AAA and AAAA.

› In girls’ soccer, from 2013 to 2018, each of the 24 championships in A (there was no split during those years in soccer) to AAAA were won by private schools, as well as the past six in AA through AAAA. In boys’ soccer, private schools won 18 of 24 titles from 2013 to 2018.

› In swimming, since 2001 only two public school programs, including the Dalton girls in 2013, have won titles in classifications that included private schools.

› In tennis, since 1995 private schools have won 67 of 77 girls’ titles and 69 of 77 boys’ titles in classifications that included private schools.

› In track and field, private school boys’ and girls’ teams have won half of the championships in classifications that included private schools.

› In volleyball, from 2012 to 2020, private schools won 21 of 27 titles in AA through AAAA and all 10 titles in AAA and AAAA since 2016. Those numbers, public school supporters will remind you, come from nine schools. There are 224 public schools in those classifications.