Sequoyah High School is a public high school located in Hickory Flat, Georgia educating students in grades 9-12. Opened in the fall of 1990, the school is in its 20th year of existence. It is one of six high schools in Cherokee County.The school is informally located in the small neighborhood of Hickory Flat on a three-school plot of land dubbed the Ralph Quarles Educational Complex, consisting of Hickory Flat Elementary, Dean Rusk Middle, and Sequoyah High school. This center is placed on the northwest block of the intersection of East Cherokee Drive and Hickory Road.Preliminary schools in the Sequoyah cluster are Arnold Mill, Free Home, Hickory Flat, Indian Knoll, Mountain Road, Macedonia, and Johnston elementaries, and Dean Rusk Middle School. School enrollment was 1,648 students for the class of 2008. Sequoyah was named a National Blue Ribbon School in 2005, the only high school in Georgia to receive that honor, and also received the award in 2006. It also was named a Georgia School of Excellence in 2005.In athletics the school participates in Classification AAAA, Region/Area 7. In only its eighteenth year, Sequoyah held state titles in basketball (1994, 1996) and wrestling (1996, 1999) and also in softball (2006).Administration Elliot Berman, Principal Diane Butterworth, Assistant Principal Todd Miller, Assistant Principal  Laura Kudlak, Assistant PrincipalAcademicsSequoyah High School offers a broad range of academic courses and studies, having one of, if not the largest Advanced Placement program in Cherokee County. Students are offered a College Preparatory Diploma study path or a Technical Preparatory study path, with one option mixing the two. Students are recommended the following courses to obtain the needed 22 credits that satisfy the Cherokee County Board of Education's requirements for high school graduation.