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Profile: Jones County
Year Minimum Foundation building program completed
1955.
Jones County's 1950s Minimum Foundation building program provided three schools for African American students. The largest was Maggie Califf, an all-grades school at Gray. The other two were elementaries, Bradley-Wayside and Idella Duncan (at Haddock).
| Year of total integration
1970.
Sixteen Black students were enrolled in traditionally white Jones County schools in 1966-67 via Freedom of Choice, according to the Feb. 23, 1967 Jones County News.
| Known high schools
- Gray
- Maggie Califf (Gray)
Maggie Califf seems to have been named with the opening of the new school building in 1955 or within a year later.
| Known schools
- 1949-50: Bradley, Gray, Haddock, James, St. Mark(')s; 24 schools (The Jones County News 05/26/50)
- 1950-51: Gray
- 1951-52: Bethesda, Bradley, Camp Hope, Clinton, Damascus, Emerson, Fallen Creek, Gray, Haddock, Holts Chapel, James, Kings Chapel, Mill Creek, Pine Ridge, Redfield, St. Marks, Salem, Stripling, Wayside, Whites Chapel, Williams Chapel (perhaps a full list, from article on what the new school centers will serve)
- 1953-54: Gray
- 1954-55: Gray
- 1955-56: Gray - called Maggie Califf in May 1956
- 1956-57: Bradley-Wayside, Maggie Califf
The Georgia Department of Education begins publishing a list of schools in 1956-57.
- 1956-57: Bradley-Wayside (grades 1-7), Maggie Califf (1-12), Idella Duncan (1-7)
- 1957-58: Bradley-Wayside (grades 1-7), Maggie Califf (1-12), Idella Duncan (1-7)
- 1958-59: Bradley-Wayside (grades 1-7), Maggie Califf (1-12), Idella Duncan (1-7)
- 1959-60: Bradley-Wayside (grades 1-7), Maggie Califf (1-12), Idella Duncan (1-7)
- 1960-61: Bradley-Wayside (grades 1-7), Maggie Califf (1-12), Idella Duncan (1-7)
- 1961-62: Bradley-Wayside (grades 1-7), Maggie Califf (1-12), Idella Duncan (1-7)
- 1962-63: Bradley-Wayside (grades 1-7), Maggie Califf (1-12), Idella Duncan (1-7)
- 1963-64: Bradley-Wayside (grades 1-7), Maggie Califf (1-12), Idella Duncan (1-7)
- 1964-65: Bradley-Wayside (grades 1-8), Maggie Califf (1-12), Idella Duncan (1-7)
- 1965-66: Bradley-Wayside (grades 1-7), Maggie Califf (1-12), Idella Duncan (1-7)
- 1966-67: Bradley-Wayside (grades 1-7), Maggie Califf (1-12), Idella Duncan (1-7)
- 1967-68: Bradley-Wayside (grades 1-8), Maggie Califf (1-12), Idella Duncan (1-7)
- 1968-69: Bradley-Wayside (grades 1-8), Maggie Califf Elementary (1-6), Maggie Califf High (7-12), Idella Duncan (1-7)
- 1969-70: Bradley-Wayside (grades 1-8), Maggie Califf Elementary (1-6), Maggie Califf High (7-12), Idella Duncan (1-7)
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