Year Minimum Foundation building program completed 1955. Not to say that Oglethorpe County had done little with African American education, but the new Oglethorpe County Training building in Lexington consolidated 20 schools into one (or 21, depending on issue of the Oglethorpe Echo). Not 2, not 10. Twenty. The Aug. 6, 1953 Oglethorpe Echo said the new building would contain 41 classrooms, which made it one of the larger structures in the state at that time. The largest Black school in the state built with Minimum Foundation money opened five years later at Hancock Central. Even with the up-to-date building, the July 28, 1955 Echo said that lunch was being served in two different periods and that 1,100 students were on campus.

Year of total integration 1970.

Known high schools Lexington Oglethorpe County Consolidated (Lexington) Oglethorpe County Training (Lexington) Oglethorpe County Training might changed its name to Oglethorpe County Consolidated for the 1965-66 school year. No explanation was given in the Oglethorpe Echo on Sept. 2, which mentioned it in a single line in an article about enrollments: "The Oglethorpe County Consolidated (formerly Training) School had an enrollment of 1029." There is evidence of an earlier change in the Georgia Educational Directory. Starting in 1963-64, the school is listed as Oglethorpe County Consolidated. That's the name Oglethorpe's school system was sending into the state. Maybe the Echo didn't know or didn't care. Or maybe it wasn't actually enacted until 1965-66. Or maybe the Directory was wrong about the date. They resume calling the school Oglethorpe County Training a few years later in the directory when it was not the correct name. "Training" as part of a school name was considered a derogatory term by African Americans in many communities. While several schools continued using it in their names, an increasing amount began altering their schools to have a more neutral name. For example, Wayne County Training became Northside.

Known schools 1949-50: Adkins Grove, Bethlehem, Cedar, Clarks Grove, Crawford, Lexington, Maxeys, New Hope, Oconee, Olive, Park Bethel, Saint James 1952-53: Adkins Grove, Bethlehem, Cedar, Chestnut Grove, Clarke, Crawford, Fork Bethel, Lexington, Lumpkin, Maxeys Lodge, Mount Carmel, New Hope, Oconee, Olive, Piney Grove, Pleasant Hill, St. James, Springhill, Thankful, Thankful Grove, Thornton's, Watkins, Watkins Grove 1953-54: 20 schools (08/06/1953 The Oglethorpe Echo) The Georgia Department of Education begins publishing a list of schools in 1956-57. 1956-57: Oglethorpe County Training (grades 1-12) 1957-58: Oglethorpe County Training (grades 1-12) 1958-59: Oglethorpe County Training (grades 1-12) 1959-60: Oglethorpe County Training (grades 1-12) 1960-61: Oglethorpe County Training (grades 1-12) 1961-62: Oglethorpe County Training (grades 1-12) 1962-63: Oglethorpe County Training (grades 1-12) 1963-64: Oglethorpe County Consolidated (grades 1-12) 1964-65: Oglethorpe County Consolidated (grades 1-12) 1965-66: Oglethorpe County Consolidated (grades 1-12) 1966-67: Oglethorpe County Consolidated (grades 1-12) 1967-68: Oglethorpe County Consolidated (grades 1-12) 1968-69: Oglethorpe County Consolidated (grades 1-12) 1969-70: Oglethorpe County Consolidated (grades 1-12)

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