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Profile: Spalding County

Year Minimum Foundation building program completed
c. 1958.

Griffin city and Spalding County systems merged in the early 1950s, using the hyphenated name Griffin-Spalding. A new Kelsey Elementary appears in the 1958-59 Georgia Educational Directory for the first name and a number of small schools were no longer listed. Other additions for new buildings are currently unknown.

Year of total integration
1970.

Known high schools
  • Cabin Creek (Griffin)
  • Fairmont (Griffin)
  • Griffin Vocational
Griffin Vocational opened in 1929. Cabin Creek went back decades earlier, operating as a private school. It and Griffin Vocational each had high schools for at least a few years.

Cabin Creek seems to have become a city school by the late 1940s. When it partially burned in 1949, the Griffin Daily News noted that it and other neighborhood schools were slated for replacement.

Known schools
  • 1934-35: Mount Pleasant
  • 1948-49: Broad Street, Cabin Creek, Griffin Vocational, Kelsey
  • 1951-52: Fairmont
The Georgia Department of Education begins publishing a list of schools in 1956-57.
  • 1956-57: Fairmont (grades ?-12), Moore (1-6), Cora Nimmons (1-7), Annie Shockley (1-6). Not a complete list.
  • 1957-58: Fairmont (grades 8-12), Moore (1-7), Mount Pleasant (1-6), Cora Nimmons (1-7), Pleasant Grove A (1-7), Pleasant Grove B (1-7), Pomona (1-7), Rover (1-7), Annie Shockley (1-7)
  • 1958-59: Fairmont (grades 7-12), Kelsey (1-7), Moore (1-6), Cora Nimmons (1-4), Annie Shockley (1-6)
  • 1959-60: Fairmont (grades 8-12), Kelsey (1-7), Moore (1-6), Cora Nimmons (1-6), Annie Shockley (1-7)
  • 1960-61: Fairmont (grades 8-12), Kelsey (1-7), Cora Nimmons (1-6), Annie Shockley (1-7)
  • 1961-62: Fairmont (grades 8-12), Kelsey (1-7), Moore (1-7), Cora Nimmons (1-7), Annie Shockley (1-6)
  • 1962-63: Fairmont (grades 8-12), Kelsey (1-7), Moore (1-7), Cora Nimmons (1-7), Annie Shockley (1-6)
  • 1963-64: Fairmont (grades 8-12), Junior High (7-8), Kelsey (1-7), Moore (1-7), Cora Nimmons (1-7), Annie Shockley (1-6)
  • 1964-65: Fairmont (grades 9-12), Kelsey (7-8), Moore (1-6), Cora Nimmons (1-6), Annie Shockley (1-6)
  • 1965-66: Fairmont (grades 9-12), Kelsey (7-8), Moore (1-6), Cora Nimmons (1-6), Annie Shockley (1-6)
  • 1966-67: Fairmont (grades 9-12), Kelsey (7-8), Moore (1-6), Cora Nimmons (1-6), Annie Shockley (1-6)
  • 1967-68: Fairmont (grades 9-12), Kelsey (7-8), Moore (1-6), Cora Nimmons (1-6), Annie Shockley (1-6)
  • 1968-69: Fairmont (grades 9-12), Kelsey (7-8), Moore (1-6), Annie Shockley (1-6)
  • 1969-70: Fairmont (grades 9-12), Kelsey (7-8), Moore (4-6), Annie Shockley (1-6)
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