All of Atlanta’s 11 football-playing high schools are scheduled to kick off their grid seasons this weekend.
Four of these schools will commence play this Thursday (August 14th); The Business Engineering Science Tech (BEST) Academy Eagles travel to Ellenwood, Georgia in DeKalb County to face Utopian Academy for the Arts at 7 pm; Douglass’s Astros journey to Cumming, Georgia to face West Forsyth at 7:30 pm and KIPP’s Atlanta Collegiate Warriors are in Fairburn, Georgia facing Landmark Christian at Lakewood Stadium.
Two other teams also have Thursday night tilts. The North Atlanta Warriors, picked by The Inquirer to finish first in this year’s race will sojourn to Dacula Georgia to face Hebron Christian at 4:30 pm and Carver High School’s red and black Panther elevens, picked to finish third among the newspaper’s 2025 rankings, faces Southwest DeKalb at Decatur’s Buck Godfrey Stadium, commencing at 7 pm.
Here are the Inquirer’s complete predicted Atlanta high school rankings and finishers for this 2025 season:
- North Atlanta
- Benjamin E. Mays
- George Washington Carver-Atlanta
- Frederick Douglass
- Maynard H. Jackson
- South Atlanta
- Daniel M. Therrell
- Midtown
- KIPP-Atlanta Collegiate
- BEST Academy
- Booker T. Washington
Last updated on August 14, 2025
