page_title: Norcross High School
section_title: Present-day
hierarchical_section_title: Norcross High School / History / Present-day
caption_attribution_description: English: Norcross High School
context_page_description: Norcross High School is located in Norcross, Georgia, United States. It is part of the Gwinnett County Public Schools. It serves the cities of Norcross and Peachtree Corners.
  Norcross High School occupies a 440,000-square-foot facility at 5300 Spalding Drive which opened in August 2001. William Bishop is the current school principal. Norcross is the only high school in the Gwinnett County school system to have the IB Diploma Programme.
context_section_description: Norcross High School opened a 440,000-square-foot (41,000 m²) facility at 5300 Spalding Drive in Norcross in August 2001.  This land was purchased by the Gwinnett County Public School System because a 1998 tornado cleared the land of trees.  The new building shared the same design as its Gwinnett County neighbor,  Peachtree Ridge High School. 
  The former facility at 2595 Beaver Ruin Road was renamed Buchanan High School of Technology, which until July 2013 housed the Gwinnett Online Campus and GIVE Center West, a grade 6-12 alternative school. In January 2013, the Gwinnett County Board of Education voted to move GIVE and the online center to a new location, and the original Norcross High School was demolished. All existing buildings with the exception of the 1996 gymnasium  were removed making way for the relocated Summerour Middle School, which opened for the 2015-2016 school year. The previous Summerour building had been next to the old NHS, and was itself torn down to make way for the new Baldwin Elementary.
  The school opened with a student population of 2,400, and as of 2015 had an estimated 4,000, one of the largest high schools in the state. It has since slightly decreased since the opening of nearby Paul Duke STEM High School in the 2018-2019 school year, which opened in part to relieve overcrowding at Norcross.
caption: Norcross High School front entrance
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