About Us

Our Vision: Phoenix High School will provide quality instruction in an environment that inspires classroom success, individual excellence, and responsible citizenship.

Welcome to the Phoenix High School website.  Phoenix High School is a special purpose high school that provides students 16 and older students an opportunity for credit recovery and/orcredit acceleration.  Phoenix High School staff work together as a team to provide leadership needed to put student needs first.  The school has a warm welcoming environment supported by a comprehensive family school engagement program. Phoenix has a small student population. An individualized graduation plan is developed for each student by the administration and counseling upon enrollment. Phoenix High is a special purpose school that addresses a myriad of individual situations. The graduation coach, along with counselors, teachers, and administration work closely with students to monitor graduation plans, attendance, behavior and academic progress.  

As part of “#OneWhitfield,” our school is driven by building positive, supportive community relationships. By forging partnerships with Northwest Georgia College and Career Academy, Dalton State College, Georgia Northwestern Technical College, and business/industry, we provide opportunities to collaborate on the direction of our school.

Are you ready to develop your individualized graduation plan?  

Mrs. Sherri Travisano

Principal

I have had the opportunity to serve as principal at the Northwest Georgia College and Career Academy and Phoenix High School since 2017.  I joined Whitfield County Schools in 2007 as an elementary principal.  I have worked as a principal, district administrator, instructional coach, college professor, and teacher in my 30+ years in education.  

ORGANIZATIONS:   Association of Career and Technical Education, ACTE  

Association of Supervision of Curriculum Development, ASCD  

Georgia Association of Alternative Education, GAAE

Mrs. Amy Fossett

Assistant Principal (Curriculum)

I have worked in Whitfield County Schools since 1993 as a classroom teacher, resource teacher, instructional coach and assistant principal at all three levels: elementary, middle, and high. She joined the administrative team as an assistant principal at the Northwest Georgia College and Career Academy and Phoenix High School in 2021.

Mr. Patrick Bates

Assistant Principal (Discipline, Facilities & Testing)

I have been in the teaching profession for 28 years.  I have been with Whitfield County Schools for 24 of those years.  I have worked at Dug Gap Elementary, Southeast High School, Phoenix High School and Northwest Georgia College and Career Academy.  I am beginning my 10^th year with Northwest Georgia College and Career Academy and Phoenix High School.  This is my first year as Assistant Principal.  I am looking forward to the many challenges of this new school year.