Class 4A picked up 23 football teams and lost 17 during reclassification. Here are their comings and goings, with their previous or new classes in parentheses.

Coming

Burke County (3A)

Cherokee Bluff (3A)

Clarkston (5A)

East Forsyth (3A)

Griffin (5A)

Holy Innocents’ (A Private)

Johnson-Gainesville (5A)

Lovett (2A)

North Hall (3A)

Pace Academy (2A)

Seckinger (new)

Sonoraville (3A)

Southeast Bulloch (3A)

Southwest DeKalb (5A)

Starr’s Mill (5A)

Stockbridge (5A)

Stone Mountain (5A)

Trinity Christian (A Private)

Walnut Grove (5A)

Wayne County (5A)

Westminster (3A)

Whitewater (5A)

Woodland-Stockbridge (5A)

Going

Arabia Mountain (5A)

Carver-Columbus (3A)

Columbus (3A)

Dougherty (3A)

Flowery Branch (5A)

Jefferson (5A)

Jenkins (5A)

Jordan (2A)

Kendrick (2A)

Marist (6A)

Mays (5A)

Monroe (3A)

Pickens (3A)

Ridgeland (3A)

Rutland (2A)

Spencer (2A)

Thomas County Central (6A)

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