Year Minimum Foundation building program completed c. 1955-58. Blue Ridge's building situation is not known. No school was included for it with the rest of Fannin County's expansive building plans.

Year of total integration 1965. Blue Ridge - not to be confused with the white elementary school of the same name - closes in 1965. Complete desegregation seems to have been ordered by the federal government. A notice from Superintendent Travis Guthrie in the August 5, 1965 Fannin County Times carries the language used in federal desegregation orders. The introduction to the article said it was a plan approved by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The order is presumed to have affected Fannin's Black high school population. Blue Ridge was for grades 1-8. High school students were sent to Tri-City in Pickens County. A Fannin County Times article on Aug. 5 stated that "any monetary allowance paid to applicants to attend a school of their choice is hereby discontinued at the close of the 1964-65 school year." This is presumed to be their agreement with Pickens. Four students attended Blue Ridge in 1962-63, according to the June 25, 1963 Atlanta Constitution.

Known high schools None. Fannin students were bused to Tate, where Pickens County Training, later called Tri-City, was located. The busing might have begun in 1951, when the Pickens County Progress reported on July 12 that "Fannin does not have enough colored students to maintain a high school for them, and this is a reasonable solution to the question." The high school grades were in Pickens by the 1953-54 school year. An Aug. 27, 1953 Pickens County Progress article said Gilmer and Fannin students were attending school in that county. This leaves open the possibility that Fannin did try at some point to operate a high school, but if that happened, it is extremely doubtful that it would have contained all grades.

Known schools 1950-51: Blue Ridge Colored (full list; BRC goes through 7th grade and in 1950-51 served 11 students. Arrangements have been made in the case of at least one student that further education can be received at Pickens County Training.) School referred to as Fannin County Colored in survey, but name likely incorrect. 1952-53: Blue Ridge Colored (1 teacher) (full list) 1953-54: Blue Ridge Colored (1 teacher) (full list) The Georgia Department of Education begins publishing a list of schools in 1956-57. 1956-57: Blue Ridge (grades 1-8) 1957-58: Blue Ridge (grades 1-8) 1958-59: Blue Ridge (grades 1-8) 1959-60: Blue Ridge (grades 1-8) 1960-61: Blue Ridge (grades 1-8) 1961-62: Blue Ridge (grades 1-8) 1962-63: Blue Ridge (grades 1-8) 1963-64: Blue Ridge (grades 1-8) 1964-65: Blue Ridge (grades 1-8)

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