Which athletic programs are winningest in GHSA?
An general winner might be declared in every classification in spite of everything sports activities full their championships.
Marist guard Kate Harpring (fourth from left) celebrates with the trophy after their 58-50 win towards Kell in the Class 4A women GHSA state championship on the Macon Coliseum, Thursday, March, 12, 2026, in Macon, Ga. (Jason Getz/AJC)
DeKalb County personal faculty Marist, which has some of the profitable athletic programs in state historical past, heads into the spring championship season with the all-classification lead in the inaugural AJC Varsity all-sports standings for Georgia High School Association faculties.
The War Eagles have received three state championships throughout the 2025-26 faculty yr and had 4 different groups with top-four finishes to compile 1,123.7 factors. That offers Marist a lead of 163.8 factors, the biggest in any classification, over second-place North Oconee in the Class 4A standings.
Last month, nationwide participant of the yr Kate Harpring led the War Eagles to the girls basketball championship. marist also won state titles in girls and boys swimming in early February.
The AJC Varsity all-sports standings are modeled after related competitions utilized by school divisions and different highschool associations, however with a twist: Sports are weighted primarily based on NFHS (National Federation of State High School Associations) and statewide participation numbers and the variety of championships awarded by the GHSA. It can be the state’s most inclusive rating, monitoring extra faculties and extra sports activities than any of its sort in Georgia.
Schools can earn as much as 100 factors in every of 31 GHSA sports activities, and people factors are multiplied (1.3, 1.2 or 1.1 occasions, primarily based on the participation and championship numbers) for a complete rating in every sport. A faculty’s general rating is made up of its prime eight boys finishes, prime eight women finishes, and next-best end no matter gender (or coed).
An general winner might be declared in every classification. The prime boys program and prime women program in every class can even be acknowledged, together with a prime faculty in every area.
Two faculties which have received 4 state championships every throughout this faculty yr are main the competitors in their classifications.
Creekview of Class 5A has received championships in boys cross nation, fast-pitch softball, boys twin wrestling and women basketball and holds a ten.1-point lead over second-place Milton, a slim margin that was supplied when the Grizzlies defeated Milton in the women basketball championship sport in March.
Hebron Christian of Class 3A-A Private has received state titles in boys cross nation, soccer, volleyball and women basketball to amass 1,000.6 factors. The Lions have a 69.6-point lead over second-place Greater Atlanta Christian, which has received championships in gameday cheerleading, boys swimming and women swimming. Hebron Christian is the one faculty apart from Marist with greater than 1,000 factors.
Other faculties with three state championships in the present faculty yr are Camden County (boys twin wrestling, boys conventional wrestling, women conventional wrestling), Heritage-Catoosa (cheerleading, fast-pitch softball and women basketball), Jefferson (volleyball, boys twin wrestling, conventional boys wrestling) and Pope (women cross nation, flag soccer and volleyball).
The closest race in any classification is in 2A, the place Columbus has 838.1 factors and holds a 3.8-point lead over Morgan County. Both faculties have received two state championships.
Leaders in the opposite classifications are Buford in Class 6A, Jefferson in 3A, Bremen in A Division I, and Wilcox County in A Division II.
Only 31 of the GHSA’s 457 faculties did not earn any factors in the autumn and winter playoffs. Of these, 19 are members of Class A Division II, which consists of the state’s smallest public faculties. Six of the opposite 12 are magnet, constitution or small personal faculties that don’t play soccer.
Listed under are the highest 10 groups in every classification after the autumn and winter championships.
Class 6A
- Buford—976.1
- North Gwinnett — 923.2
- Richmond Hill — 874.2
- Carrollton — 848.6
- Walton — 837.2
- West Forsyth — 829.9
- Brookwood — 787.0
- Hillgrove — 754.9
- North Forsyth — 729.9
- Harrison—685.2
Boys chief: North Gwinnett — 442.4
Girls chief: Richmond Hill — 578.8
Class 5A
- Creekview — 855.9
- Milton—845.8
- Pope—800.7
- Woodward Academy — 794.0
- Sequoyah—736.2
- Jackson County — 692.2
- Lassiter—643.1
- River Ridge — 625.7
- Greenbrier—614.9
- Gainesville — 604.7
Boys chief: Woodward Academy—326.2
Girls chief: Milton—601.9
Class 4A
- Marist — 1,123.7
- North Oconee — 959.9
- St. Pius — 835.5
- Cambridge—791.1
- Pace Academy — 783
- Blessed Trinity — 753.8
- Harris County — 729.6
- Cartersville — 728.1
- Starr’s Mill — 713.7
- Westminster—708.7
Boys chief: North Oconee — 408.7
Girls chief: Marist—720.9
Class 3A
- Jefferson—940.8
- North Hall — 848.4
- Oconee County — 794.4
- Heritage-Catoosa — 770.7
- Cherokee Bluff — 762.3
- Calhoun — 685.9
- Whitewater — 647.3
- Long County — 635.5
- West Laurens — 629.0
- Lumpkin County — 616.6
Boys chief: Jefferson—423.3
Girls chief: Heritage-Catoosa — 529.3
Class 2A
- Columbus—838.1
- Morgan County — 834.3
- Franklin County — 659.9
- Pierce County — 645.4
- Sonoraville — 622.4
- Rockmart — 617.4
- Union County — 613.5
- Hart County — 610.8
- Pike County—604.0
- Coahulla Creek — 581.6
Boys chief: Morgan County — 374.6
Girls chief: Columbus—501.1
Class A Division I
- Bremen — 768.5
- Gordon Lee—677.2
- Heard County — 663.2
- Toombs County — 658.6
- Fannin County — 615.9
- Vidalia — 578.6
- Fitzgerald—551.0
- Model—535.4
- Elbert County — 494.2
- Armuchee — 492.7
Boys chief: Toombs County — 336.7
Girls chief: Bremen — 531.9
Class A Division II
- Wilcox County — 576.0
- Trion—503.3
- Screven County — 499.3
- Metter — 496.5
- Bowdon—486.2
- Lake Oconee Academy — 469.4
- Washington-Wilkes — 421.5
- Schley County — 379.9
- Wheeler County — 369.3
- Emanuel County Institute — 368.1
Boys chief: Clinch County — 237.9
Girls chief: Wilcox County — 406.2
Class 3A-A Private
- Hebron Christian — 1,000.6
- Greater Atlanta Christian—931.0
- Lovett—885.0
- Mount Vernon—832.2
- Wesleyan—740.8
- Holy Innocents’ — 697.1
- North Cobb Christian — 638.5
- Whitefield Academy—633.1
- Savannah Christian — 588.2
- Calvary Day — 584.3
Boys chief: Hebron Christian — 399.6
Girls chief: Greater Atlanta Christian—644.2
Chip Saye rejoined The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2025, on the launch of AJC Varsity. In 2009 he helped begin Georgia High School Football Daily. He beforehand labored for the AJC, Athens Banner-Herald, Anderson (SC) Independent-Mail and Gwinnett Daily News.
