Monroe Area High School

Monroe Area High School is located in Walton County, Georgia, United States.

The present campus was constructed in 2005, and includes a football stadium (the Purple Pit) with a nine-lane rubberized track, baseball and softball fields, tennis courts, and a practice field for football and soccer.

The old Monroe Area High School building (currently home to the Walton County satellite campus of Athens Technical College), its football stadium, and the Monroe Area football team were used during filming of the TV series The Vampire Diaries.

[1] Monroe Area is home to the Purple Hurricanes and competes in region 8-AAA of the Georgia High School Association.

The school offers the following sports:[2] In 2012 the girls' track team won the State Championship for 8-AAA.