Sean Dalton of Walton High School has advanced to regional competition for the Student Teacher Achievement Recognition Program (STAR).
He and other Cobb students and teachers were honored recently by Metro Marietta Kiwanis Club. STAR is sponsored by the Professional Association of Georgia Educators.
According to the Cobb County School District, “the STAR program recognizes high school seniors with the highest SAT scores and grade point averages at their school. Each student selects a teacher who made a significant impact on their academic journey to be honored alongside them.”
East Cobb schools have done well in recent STAR competition. In 2025, Wheeler student Fiona Peterson and Latin teacher Cameron Ward were named the Georgia STAR runners-up. In 2024, Walton’s Omer Mustafa Inan and Tamara Hollingsworth earned top STAR honors.
The Cobb County School District announced on Friday all of the 2026 STAR students and teachers, respectively, and here they are for high schools in East Cobb:
- Kell High School — Juan Diego Jimenez “JD” Ramirez and Danielle LeBrun
- Lassiter High School — Carter Kopp and Catherine Mardis
- Pope High School — Ishaan Marwaha and Briana Ransom; Lucy Nichols and Angela Chapin
- Sprayberry High School — Eli Suddeth and Chris Shields
- Walton High School — Sean Joseph Dalton and Allen Hubbard
- Wheeler High School — Arpit Rajkumar Ramani and Andrew Avizbakiyev
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