Crestwood High School (Georgia)

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Crestwood High School, on Colonel Drive (Dunwoody, Ga) in what is now known as Sandy Springs, opened in the Fall of 1972 to relieve overcrowding at nearby Roswell and North Springs High School. The school housed grades 8 through 12, until the Fulton County School system implemented the middle school system in 1983 (thereby dropping 8th grade).

The school's mascot was the "Colonels."

The facility was sometimes referred to as the "square donut" given that the halls formed a near-perfect square around a gymnasium located in the center of the building.

The school had no windows in any of it's classrooms, except in 2-3 "art" rooms.

The school ceased to exist at the end of the 1990-1991 school year when the Fulton County School System restructured. Most of the students and faculty transferred to the newly-opened Chattahoochee High School in Alpharetta, and Sandy Springs Middle School moved into the building in the fall of 1991.

In 2002 the building which housed Crestwood High School was demolished after a new facility was built for Sandy Springs Middle School on the same property. Before the demolition could take place significant amounts of asbestos, which could not be removed during an early 1980's asbestos removal project, had to be removed.