Brookwood High School is an American public secondary school in Snellville, Georgia, United States, with a student body of 3,503. Brookwood serves several areas of Gwinnett County, including Snellville, Lawrenceville, and Lilburn.General informationSchool hours are 7:24 am to 2:10 pm. Students arrive via more than 40 different buses at 6:55 each morning. Every Tuesday and Thursday, students have "extended lunch," in which they have 52 for lunch rather than a twenty two-minute study hall (called "guided study") and a twenty two-minute lunch.AdministrationWilliam Bo Ford, Jr. is the principal of Brookwood High School.HistoryPlanning for Brookwood High School was started in 1977 to lessen the overcrowding of nearby South Gwinnett High School and Parkview High School. A committee of educators from Gwinnett County met to create and discuss specifications for the facility. The school officially opened in 1981 under principal Emmett Lawson.The school derived its name from its location on the intersection of Holly Brook Road (a section of this road is now Webb Gin House Road) and Dogwood Road. A committee of three students selected the school mascot and the colors of maroon and gold, which were based on the colors of Florida State University. The original school mascot had a horseshoe around the bronco, which was later removed. The original mascot was a drawing of an entire bronco, but the current logo uses only a bronco's head. The runner-up mascot choice was the Bruins, and the second place color scheme was baby blue and gold.
