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Profile: Bryan County

Year Minimum Foundation building program completed
c. 1954-1955.

Pembroke received a new school and possibly Carver of Richmond Hill. Very little details have surfaced about Bryan's school-building program.

Year of total integration
1970.

Known high schools
  • Carver (Richmond Hill)
  • Pembroke
With Fort Gordon then as now essentially splitting Bryan County in half, there was probably little to no consideration of combining the two.

Known schools
  • 1944-45: Mill Creek, Pembroke
  • 1945-46: Carver
  • 1946-47: [Ellabelle], Pembroke, [Richmond Hill]
  • 1952-53: George Washington Carver, (11 teachers, 10 grades), Mill Creek (4, 4 grades), Pembroke (9, 10 grades) (full list according to faculty list released in Aug. 28, 1952 Pembroke Journal)
  • 1953-54: George Washington Carver (11 teachers), Mill Creek, Pembroke
  • 1954-55: George Washington Carver (9 teachers, with two vacancies), Mill Creek (4), Pembroke (9) (full list)
  • 1955-56: George Washington Carver, Mill Creek, Pembroke (full list)
The Georgia Department of Education begins publishing a list of schools in 1956-57.
  • 1956-57: George Washington Carver (grades 1-12), Mill Creek Elementary (1-6), Pembroke High (1-12). The Georgia Educational Directory said Bryan's list was not complete, but it likely was.
  • 1957-58: George W. Carver High (grades 1-12), Mill Creek (1-6), Pembroke High (1-12)
  • 1958-59: George W. Carver High (grades 1-12), Mill Creek (1-6), Pembroke High (1-12)
  • 1959-60: George W. Carver High (grades 1-12), Mill Creek (1-6), Pembroke High (1-12)
  • 1960-61: George W. Carver High (grades 1-12), Mill Creek (1-6), Pembroke High (1-12)
  • 1961-62: George W. Carver High (grades 1-12), Mill Creek (1-6), Pembroke High (1-12)
  • 1962-63: George W. Carver High (grades 1-12), Mill Creek (1-6), Pembroke High (1-12)
  • 1963-64: George W. Carver High (grades 1-12), Mill Creek (1-5), Pembroke High (1-12)
  • 1964-65: George W. Carver High (grade 1-12), Mill Creek (1-5), Pembroke High (1-12)
  • 1965-66:The Educational Directory omitted Bryan's African American schools. Carver and Pembroke were definitely open, but Mill Creek's status is unknown
  • 1966-67: George Washington Carver Elementary and High (grades 1-12), Pembroke Elementary and High (1-12)
  • 1967-68: George Washington Carver Elementary and High (grades 1-12), Pembroke Elementary and High (1-12)
  • 1968-69: George Washington Carver Elementary and High (grades 1-12), Pembroke Elementary and High (1-12)
  • 1969-70: George Washington Carver Elementary (grades 1-7), Pembroke Elementary and High (1-11)
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