T. L. Hanna High School is located at 2600 Highway 81 North, outside the city limits of  Anderson, SC. It is one of two high schools in Anderson School District 5 and has a population of nearly 1,800 students. TL Hanna is administrated by Shawn Tobin. On July 1, 2015 Mr. Shawn Tobin was appointed as principal taking the place of long time Shelia Hilton, who has now retired. In 1989, the school was named "Palmetto's Finest" by the South Carolina Department of Education. In 2000, Hanna was named a National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education. In 2014, U.S. News & World Report named T.L. Hanna as the fifth best high school in South Carolina, and ranked in the top 3% of High Schools in the United States.