Year Minimum Foundation building program completed Mid-1950s. Fitzgerald and Ben Hill County were separate school systems. Neither built a completely new school. Ben Hill County gave Queensland a new shop/home economics building while Fitzgerald city's funds built Monitor a cafetorium, a combination lunchroom and auditorium.

Year of total integration ?

Known high schools Monitor (Fitzgerald) Queensland (north Ben Hill County) Monitor served city students, with Queensland for county.

Known schools 1950-51: Queensland High 1951-52: Monitor (23 teachers), Queensland High; five more county schools, all one-room. Queensland goes through 11th grade and is preparing for 12th. (The Fitzgerald Herald, 02/08/1952) 1952-53: Monitor, Queensland High 1953-54: Monitor, Queensland The Georgia Department of Education begins publishing a list of schools in 1956-57. 1956-57: Queensland (grades 1-12) (county); Monitor Elementary and High (1-12) (city) 1957-58: Queensland (grades 1-12) (county); Monitor (1-12) (city) 1958-59: Queensland (grades 1-12) (county); Monitor (1-12) (city) 1959-60: Queensland (grades 1-12) (county); Monitor (1-12) (city) 1960-61: Queensland (grades 1-12) (county); Monitor (1-12) (city) 1961-62: Queensland (grades 1-12) (county); Monitor (1-12) (city) 1962-63: Queensland (grades 1-12) (county); Monitor (1-12) (city) 1963-64: Queensland (grades 1-12) (county); Monitor (1-12) (city) 1964-65: Queensland (grades 1-12) (county); Monitor (1-12) (city) 1965-66: Queensland (grades 1-12) (county); Monitor (1-12) (city) 1966-67: Queensland (grades 1-12) (county); Monitor (1-12) (city) 1967-68: Queensland (grades 1-12) (county); Monitor (1-11) (city) 1968-69: Queensland (grades 1-12) (county); Monitor (1-11) (city) 1969-70: Monitor (grades 1-11) (city)

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