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Profile: Barrow County

Year Minimum Foundation building program completed
1957.

Glenwood was built as part of the Winder city building program. Barrow County built no African American schools as the new Glenwood plant consolidates all of the county schools. Glenwood housed all students from both school systems.

Year of total integration
?

Known high schools
  • Fairfield (Statham)
  • Glenwood (Winder)

Fairfield completely closed in 1957.

Known schools
  • 1951-52: Bethlehem, Fairfield High, Glenwood High (9 teachers; city school), Tanner's Bridge; three county schools, including high school at Statham (The Winder News, 07/26/1951) (so, full list)
  • 1952-53: Glenwood High
  • 1953-54: Bethlehem (4 teachers), Fairfield (5), Glenwood High (city), Tanner's Bridge (3) (full list)
  • 1954-55: Bethlehem (4 teachers), Fairfield (5), Glenwood (8; city), Tanner's Bridge (3) (full list)
  • 1955-56: Bethlehem, Fairfield, Glenwood (9 teachers; city), Tanner's Bridge (full list)
  • 1956-57: Bethlehem (3 teachers), Fairfield (5), Glenwood (10; city), Tanner's Bridge (4) (full list)
The Georgia Department of Education begins publishing a list of schools in 1956-57.
  • 1956-57: Bethlehem (grades 1-8), Fairfield (1-8), Tanner's Bridge (1-8) (county); Glenwood Elementary and High (1-12) (city)
  • 1957-58: Glenwood Elementary and High (grades 1-12)
  • 1958-59: Glenwood High and Elementary (grades 1-12)
  • 1959-60: Glenwood High and Elementary (grades 1-12)
  • 1960-61: Glenwood High and Elementary (grades 1-12)
  • 1961-62: Glenwood High and Elementary (grades 1-12)
  • 1962-63: Glenwood High and Elementary (grades 1-12)
  • 1963-64: Glenwood High and Elementary (grades 1-12)
  • 1964-65: Glenwood High and Elementary (grades 1-12)
  • 1965-66: Glenwood High and Elementary (grades 1-12)
  • 1966-67: Glenwood High and Elementary (grades 1-12)
  • 1967-68: Glenwood High and Elementary (grades 1-12)
  • 1968-69: Glenwood High and Elementary (grades 1-12)
  • 1969-70: Glenwood High and Elementary (grades 1-12)
Annual Reports of the Department of Education to the General Assembly of the State of Georgia - renamed Report on Georgia Schools in 1956 - ran a litany of statistics on public education in the state. Despite the name "Annual Reports," the books were issued every two years by the 1930s.

Included in these stats are two major ones that help give a picture of Black schools where other statewide sources do not: The amount of African American schools in each school system, and the amount of one-teacher schools in each system.

There were not without flaws, either. The Annual Reports were inconsistent with properly labeling city school systems. Before the 1950s, these were much more numerous. Cordele and Vienna, for example, were among the individual city systems that closed during the 1950s. Numbers were submitted by each school system, always with the chance of errors.

The table presented here covers both numbers - total schools and one-teacher schools - nearly every two years from 1932 to 1956. No statistics were printed in 1946 and 1948.

Stats are for the end of the school year. For example, 1950, refers to 1949-50.

YearTotal schoolsOne-teacherNotes
1932 11 6
1934 11 9
1936 11 9
1938 10 7
1940 10 6
1942 10 7
1944 10 7
1950 10 7
1952 3 1
1954 3 0
1956 3 0

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