Year Minimum Foundation building program completed 1955 Few details are available on Banks' building program and none on the consolidated African American elementary school in Homer. We can piece together the basics via Report on Georgia Schools. The 1956 Report on Georgia Schools lists Banks with a single brick building for Black education with three classrooms (four in the 1960 edition), a cafetorium and a library. The 1952 Annual Reports of the State Department of Education - the original name of Report on Georgia Schools - gives Banks three frame buildings for Black students and no value reported for a library. Thus, it's obvious Banks received a brick building for its building program, with around four classrooms, an actual library and cafetorium, the term used in those days to indicate a lunchroom with a stage. An efficient way of holding assemblies if needed and standard on every school built in this era. Banks County Elementary no doubt contained the other basics, restrooms, office and janitorial space. Historic Aerials' aerial and topographic maps indicate the school was located on Evans Street in Homer. It still stands, though additions have made it much larger than when originally built.

Year of total integration 1966. Banks County Elementary likely closed and completely integrated in 1966. Cornelia Regional, where the high school students attended, completely closed at the end of the 1965-66 school term.

Known high schools None. Students were initially bused to Johntown in Commerce, but then entered an agreement with Cornelia Regional for 1954-55 in Habersham County, according to the Sept. 7, 1954 Northeast Georgian, a Cornelia-based newspaper. That agreement lasted until total integration.

Known schools 1950-51: Bethlehem, Homer Colored, Neal's Grove, Shiloh (looks to be full list, four teachers in county) 1956-57: Banks County Elementary (full list) 1965-66: Banks County Elementary (72 enrolled per Sept. 2, 1965 Banks County Journal) (full list) The Georgia Department of Education begins publishing a list of schools in 1956-57. 1956-57: Banks County Elementary (grades 1-8) 1957-58: Banks County Elementary (grades 1-8) 1958-59: Banks County Elementary (grades 1-8) 1959-60: Banks County Elementary (grades 1-8) 1960-61: Banks County Elementary (grades 1-8) 1961-62: Banks County Elementary (grades 1-8) 1962-63: Banks County Elementary (grades 1-8) 1963-64: Banks County Elementary (grades 1-8) 1964-65: Banks County Elementary (grades 1-8) 1965-66: Banks County Elementary (grades 1-8)

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