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Profile: Clay County

Year Minimum Foundation building program completed
1955.

Speight in Fort Gaines received a new building, as well as Bluffton Elementary. All Black schools in Clay County were consolidated into these two sites.

Year of total integration
1970.

Known high schools
  • Bluffton
  • Speight (Fort Gaines)
Bluffton seems to have only had a high school for one year only, 1951-52, before moving those grades to Speight.

Known schools
  • 1949-50: A. Speight High, Union
  • 1950-51: Bluffton High, Kennon Grove, Macedonia, New Bethel, A. Speight High, Sutton's Crossing (first year Bluffton has a high school; Union looks to have consolidated with Bluffton this year; "Negro elementary schools are now in the process of consolidation throughout the county. Three schools were consolidated during the past school term, and another consolidation effected at the beginning of the present school term." 10/26/1950 The News Record) 16 total schools (08/09/1951 The News Record)
  • 1951-52: Bluffton Elementary (5 teachers), Chattahoochee (4), Cross Roads (3), Fort Gaines Elementary (4)/A. Speight High (7); 12 total schools, Kennon Grove and New Bethel consolidated, Bluffton High to Speight (08/09/1951 The News Record)
  • 1952-53: Bluffton Elementary (5 teachers), Chattahoochee (4), Day's Crossroads (3), Green Chapel (1), Macedonia (2), Midway (1), Mount Calvary (2), Mount Zion (1), New Hope (2), St. James (1), Saint Luke (1), A. Speight High (13), Springfield (2) (full list)
  • 1953-54: Bluffton Elementary, A. Speight High
  • 1954-55: Bluffton Elementary, Chattahoochee, Crossroads, Green Chapel, Macedonia, Mount Calvary, Mount Zion, New Hope, A. Speight High, Springfield (full list)
The Georgia Department of Education begins publishing a list of schools in 1956-57.
  • 1956-57: Bluffton (grades 1-7), Speight (1-12)
  • 1957-58: Bluffton (grades 1-8), Speight (1-12)
  • 1958-59: Bluffton (grades 1-8), Speight (1-12)
  • 1959-60: Bluffton (grades 1-8), Speight (1-12)
  • 1960-61: Bluffton (grades 1-8), Speight (1-12)
  • 1961-62: Bluffton (grades 1-8), Speight (1-12)
  • 1962-63: Bluffton (grades 1-8), Speight (1-12)
  • 1963-64: Bluffton (grades 1-8), Speight (1-12)
  • 1964-65: Bluffton (grades 1-8), Speight (1-12)
  • 1965-66: Bluffton (grades 1-8), Speight (1-12)
  • 1966-67: Bluffton (grades 1-8), Speight (1-12)
  • 1967-68: Bluffton (grades 1-7), Speight (1-12)
  • 1968-69: Bluffton (grades 1-7), Speight (1-12)
  • 1969-70: Bluffton (grades 1-7), Speight (1-12)
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