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Profile: Pike County

Year Minimum Foundation building program completed
1955.

Pike County's state-funded building program constructed African American schools fo East Pike Elementary at Zebulon and Pike County Consolidated, an all-grades school at Concord. These schools opened behind schedule in 1955, but a schedule quirk made it slightly easier.

Black students began the summer at their old schools. The Oct. 27, 1955 Pike County Journal noted that they were one of the systems that essentially had year-round school for African Americans. There was a fall gap for what the Journal called "cotton picking vacation" where these kids were needed as farm labor.

Pike's Black students were out of school from Sept. 6 to Nov. 7. In that span, their new schools were completed Sept. 29 and equipment was delivered.

Surprisingly in this era, Pike was building a gymnasium for Pike County Consolidated as the school was going up. The July 29, 1954 Journal said ground had been recently broken for it. Wildly, it's possible African Americans had a modern gym before they had a modern school plant. The gyms would have been funded through a local bond issue as the Minimum Foundation Program declined to build them. Few Black schools would have their own gymnasiums until the mid-1960s.

Year of total integration
1969.

Known high schools
  • Pike County Consolidated (Concord)
  • Zebulon Training
Pike County Consolidated was built in 1955 as the county's new high school.

Known schools
  • 1945-46: Antioch (1 teacher), Beeks (near Hollonville) (1), Broadway (1), Bush Chapel (Neal) (2), Concord Industrial (5), Fairfield (2), Free Liberty (Williamson), Meansville (2), Mount Calvary (1), Mount Hebron (1), Mount Olive (Molena) (1), Pedenville (1), Pine Chapel (1), Pine Grove (1), Roberts (1), Smith Chapel (1), Union (1), Union Hill (1), White Plains (1), Williamson (2), Zebulon Training (5); apparently a full list
  • 1946-47: 20 schools (1/9/47 Pike County Journal)
  • 1951-52: 11 schools (04/03/1952 The Pike County Journal)
  • 1952-53: Beeks, Concord Industrial, Fairfield Elementary, Meansville, Mount Olive, Smith Chapel (there is a school called South Chapel in May 14 paper), Union, White Plains Elementary, Williamson, Zebulon Training
  • 1953-54: Concord Industrial, Zebulon Training
  • 1954-55: Concord Industrial, Zebulon Training
The Georgia Department of Education begins publishing a list of schools in 1956-57.
  • 1956-57: East Pike Elementary (grades 1-8), Pike County Consolidated (1-12)
  • 1957-58: East Pike Elementary (grades 1-8), Pike County Consolidated (1-12)
  • 1958-59: East Pike Elementary (grades 1-8), Pike County Consolidated (1-12)
  • 1959-60: East Pike Elementary (grades 1-8), Pike County Consolidated (1-12)
  • 1960-61: East Pike Elementary (grades 1-8), Pike County Consolidated (1-12)
  • 1961-62: East Pike Elementary (grades 1-8), Pike County Consolidated (1-12)
  • 1962-63: East Pike Elementary (grades 1-8), Pike County Consolidated (1-12)
  • 1963-64: East Pike Elementary (grades 1-8), Pike County Consolidated (1-12)
  • 1964-65: East Pike Elementary (grades 1-8), Pike County Consolidated (1-12)
  • 1965-66: East Pike Elementary (grades 1-8), Pike County Consolidated (1-12)
  • 1966-67: East Pike Elementary (grades 1-8), Pike County Consolidated (1-12)
  • 1967-68: East Pike Elementary (grades 1-8), Pike County Consolidated (1-12)
  • 1968-69: East Pike Elementary (grades 1-8), Pike County Consolidated (1-12)
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