The Starr’s Mill dance team closed out Saturday’s 84-team lineup with a championship-clinching Jazz routine to win this year’s Class 4A-5A state title and secure the program’s fifth-straight state title. Akins Arena at the Classic Center in Athens, Ga. hosted the event for the first time and the sport celebrated its fifth year as a GHSA sanctioned sport. The Panthers—who are now a perfect five-of-five in state titles—won last year’s crown with a Pom routine in the old Class 3A-4A and continued their dynasty on Saturday in a new classification with a different genre to hold off two-time reigning Class 5A-6A state champion and rival McIntosh.
In Class 6A, Peachtree Ridge returned to the top of Georgia’s highest classification with a Hip Hop routine—improving upon last year’s third-place finish and winning the program’s second state title in the past three years. Reclassification sent Starr’s Mill up from Class 3A-4A last year to the new Class 4A-5A and as a result Class 2A-3A was the only classification this year that did not have a defending state champion within it. Heritage-Catoosa capitalized and won its first-ever state title with its Hip Hop routine after finishing state runner-up last year to the Panthers.
Stilwell Arts continued its dominance by winning its fourth-straight state title and the Stallions did it with a Jazz routine—besting the field of 14 Class A teams competing in this year’s championships.
2025 State Champions
Class 6A
Peachtree Ridge (Hip Hop)
Class 4A-5A
Starr’s Mill (Jazz)
Class 2A-3A
Heritage-Catoosa (Hip Hop)
Class A
Stilwell Arts (Jazz)
Previous GHSA Dance State Champions
Class A-2A Class 3A-4A Class 5A-6A Class 7A
2021 Thomasville West Laurens Starr’s Mill Mill Creek
2022 Stilwell Arts West Laurens Starr’s Mill Mill Creek
2023 Stilwell Arts Starr’s Mill McIntosh Peachtree Ridge
2024 Stilwell Arts Starr’s Mill McIntosh South Forsyth
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