Monroe Comprehensive High School

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| motto = "Golden Tornadoes Soaring to Excellence"

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| type = Public secondary

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| principal = Frederick Polite

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| teaching_staff = 65.40 (FTE)

| ratio = 17.81

| enrollment = 1,165 (2023–2024){{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=1301830&ID=130183000824|title=Monroe High School|publisher=National Center for Education Statistics|accessdate=January 27, 2025}}

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| grades = 9–12

| streetaddress = 900 Lippitt Drive

| city = Albany

| state = Georgia

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| oversight = Dougherty County School System

| accreditation = Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
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| campus = Open

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  • Capital City Bank
  • First Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church
  • Money Works Financial Services
  • Procter & Gamble

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| website = [http://www.docoschools.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=446189&type=d&pREC_ID=1007572 Monroe Comprehensive High School]

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Monroe Comprehensive High School (MCHS) is a four-year secondary school located in Albany, Georgia, United States. It is one of three high schools in the Dougherty County School System, which also includes Dougherty Comprehensive High School and Westover Comprehensive High School.

MCHS is a comprehensive high school that offers both academic and vocational studies. Students may select from college preparatory or technical career programs of study. Programs are provided for the accelerated, the gifted and students with learning disabilities as well as students needing remedial help. Four AP courses and four languages are offered, and six vocational programs are involved in the process of achieving industry certification, with more technology being added to help motivate students.{{cite web |url=http://www.docoschools.org/Schools/SchoolInformation/MonroeComprehensiveHighInfo/tabid/60399/Default.aspx |title=Monroe Comprehensive High Info |website=www.docoschools.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904033218/http://www.docoschools.org/Schools/SchoolInformation/MonroeComprehensiveHighInfo/tabid/60399/Default.aspx |archive-date=2015-09-04}}

Alma mater

::(To the tune of "O Danny Boy")

:O' Monroe High, your halls are brightly shining

:From door to door, and on the campus green;

:Our hearts will ere be true to thee

:Dear Monroe High, to honor thee forever

:Faithfully, through all the years

:Your fame will last forever

:To lead us on to higher destiny

:And we will praise the green and gold forever;

:O' Monroe High, Dear Monroe High,

:We Love You So!

Notable alumni

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