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Class A completely separated - Oconee Enterprise
Changes are coming to Class A sports at the start of the 2020-2021 calendar year.
Class A Public and Private schools will be completely separated and placed in 4-team regions to decide region championships, according the Georgia High School Association.
Private schools will still be allowed and encouraged to compete against public schools but won’t be competing against them for region championships as they have since 2012 when Class A was split into two different classifications to even the playing field between public and private schools.
The GHSA also made some modifications to the Power Ratings’ system.
Moving forward, the Power Ratings will still be kept, but it will only be affected by games featuring private schools against private schools from Class A.
In both Class A Private and Class A Public, 32 schools will earn playoff berths with one region being designated as a wildcard region.
What does it mean?
Athens Academy and Prince Avenue Christian School may be faced with longer travel and a more expensive budget for the school year.
For more on this story, see the April. 25 edition of The Oconee Enterprise, on sale now at convenience stores and grocery stores and newspaper boxes throughout Oconee County
Athens Academy
Athens Academy is an independent, co-educational school for students in K3 through 12th grade, located on a beautiful 152-acre campus in Northeast Georgia. For over 50 years, Athens Academy has pursued its mission of Excellence with Honor through academics, athletics, fine arts, and service and leadership.
