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Profile: Lee County

Year Minimum Foundation building program completed
1955.

Lee County Training consolidated all African American schools in the school system.

Year of total integration
1970.

Known high schools
  • Lee County Training (Leesburg)

Known schools
  • 1932-33: Chokee; 35 schools (with 38 teachers, 11/04/32 Lee County Journal)
  • 1933-34: Hutchinson Grove, Leesburg; 28 schools (10/20/33 Lee County Journal)
  • 1935-36: Leesburg
  • 1938-39: 33 schools (with 36 teachers, 12/22/38 Macon Telegraph); 28 schools (2/10/39 Lee County Journal)
  • 1939-40: 28 schools (10/06/39 Lee County Journal)
  • 1941-42: 28 schools (5/1/42 Lee County Journal)
  • 1943-44: Adams (2 teachers), Century (1), Cherokee High (3), Curry Hill (1), Eagle Pond (1), Hatchers (1), Heath (1), Hutchinson (1), Jerusalem (1), Jordan Grove (2), Macedonia (2), Mount Able (1), Mount Hope (1), Mount Middleton (1), Mount Pleasant (1), New Bulah (1), Palmyra (1), Philema (1), Philip Grove (1), Piney Grove (1), St. Johns (2), St. Mathis (1), Scrutchins (1), Smithville High (4), Stocks (1), Waters Crossing (3); 27 schools (12/17/43 Lee County Journal). The missing school has to be [Leesburg]. Cherokee is probably supposed to be Chokee.
  • 1945-46: 28 schools (9/14/45 Lee County Journal)
  • 1946-47: Adams (or Adams Station) (1 teacher), Century (1), Chokee (2), Curry Hill (1), Eagle Pond (1), Haley (1), Heath (1), Hutchinson (1), Jerusalem (1), Jordan Grove (2), Lee County Training (7), Leesburg (4), Macedonia (1), Mount Able (2), Mount Hope (1), Mount Middleton, Mount Pleasant (1), New Beulah (1), Palmyra (1), Philema (2), Philip Grove (1), Pine Grove (1), St. Johns (2), St. Mathis (1), Scrutchins (1), Smithville (4), Stocks, Waters Crossing; 27 schools (10/25/46 Lee County Journal)
  • 1947-48: Century, Lee County Training, Scrutchens, Smithville
  • 1948-49: Lee County Training, Smithville Junior High
  • 1949-50: Lee County Training, Smithville Junior High
The Georgia Department of Education begins publishing a list of schools in 1956-57.
  • 1956-57: Lee County Training (grades 1-11)
  • 1957-58: Lee County Training (grades 1-12)
  • 1958-59: Lee County Training (grades 1-12)
  • 1959-60: Lee County Training (grades 1-12)
  • 1960-61: Lee County Training (grades 1-12)
  • 1961-62: Lee County Training (grades 1-12)
  • 1962-63: Lee County Training (grades 1-12)
  • 1963-64: Lee County Training (grades 1-12)
  • 1964-65: Lee County Training (grades 1-12)
  • 1965-66: Lee County Training (grades 1-12)
  • 1966-67: Lee County Training (grades 1-12)
  • 1967-68: Lee County Training (grades 1-12)
  • 1968-69: Lee County Training (grades 1-12)
  • 1969-70: Lee County Training (grades 1-12)
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