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Profile: Thomas County

Year Minimum Foundation building program completed
1958 (Thomas County); ? (Thomasville city)

Thomasville city and Thomas County are separate school systems. Thomas County's building program built Magnolia, consolidating all county system high schools, as well as 10 elementary schools.

Also built were Ochlochnee, Coolidge and New Union, with an addition to Boston.

Thomasville's building plans are unknown.

Year of total integration
1970.

Known high schools
  • Boston
  • Douglass (Thomasville)
  • Magnolia (Thomasville)
  • Meigs
  • New Union (Boston)
  • Ochlochnee

Magnolia opened as a county high school in 1958, consolidating high school grades of Boston, Meigs, New Union and Ochlochnee.

Known schools
  • 1948-49: Boston, Coolidge, Douglass, New Union, Ochlochnee
  • 1949-50: Douglass, East Side, Fletcherville, Jerger, Pavo Colored
  • 1956-57: Barwick, Boston, Centennial, Coolidge, Dewey City Junior High, Douglass, Greenwood, Magnolia Elementary, Meigs, Metcalf, Midway, New Union, Normal Park, Ochlochnee, Pavo, Pebble Hill, Springhill (full county list; Magnolia Elementary different school than building opened as Magnolia High in Jan. 1957)
The Georgia Department of Education begins publishing a list of schools in 1956-57.
  • 1956-57: Boston (grades 1-12), Coolidge (1-12), Meigs (1-12), New Union (1-12), Ochlochnee (1-12), Pavo (1-8) (county); Douglass High & Elementary (1-12), Normal Park (1-6) (city). Not a full county list.
  • 1957-58: Boston (grades 1-8), Coolidge (1-8), Magnolia (1-12), New Union (1-8), Ochlochnee (1-8) (county); Douglass (1-12), Normal Park (1-6) (city)
  • 1958-59: Boston (grades 1-8), Coolidge (1-8), Magnolia (1-12), New Union (1-8), Ochlochnee (1-8) (county); Douglass (1-12), Normal Park (1-6) (city)
  • 1959-60: Boston (grades 1-8), Coolidge (1-8), Magnolia (1-12), New Union (1-8), Ochlochnee (1-8) (county); Douglass (1-12), S.H. Dunlap (1-6) (city)
  • 1960-61: East Ochlochnee (grades 1-8), Magnolia High & Elementary (1-12), New Union (1-8), North Boston (1-8), South Coolidge (1-8) (county); Douglass Elementary (1-6), Douglass High (7-12), S.H. Dunlap (1-6) (city)
  • 1961-62: East Ochlochnee (grades 1-8), Magnolia High & Elementary (1-12), New Union (1-8), North Boston (1-8), South Coolidge (1-8) (county); Douglass Elementary (1-6), Douglass High (7-12), S.H. Dunlap (1-6) (city)
  • 1962-63: East Ochlochnee (grades 1-8), Magnolia High & Elementary (1-12), New Union (1-8), North Boston (1-8), South Coolidge (1-8) (county); Douglass Elementary (1-6), Douglass High (7-12), S.H. Dunlap (1-6) (city)
  • 1963-64: East Ochlochnee (grades 1-8), Magnolia High & Elementary (1-12), New Union (1-8), North Boston (1-8), South Coolidge (1-8) (county); Douglass Elementary (1-6), Douglass High (7-12), S.H. Dunlap (1-6), Walton Vocational & Technical (city)
  • 1964-65: East Ochlochnee (grades 1-8), Magnolia High & Elementary (1-12), New Union (1-8), North Boston (1-8), South Coolidge (1-8) (county); Douglass Elementary (1-6), Douglass High (7-12), S.H. Dunlap (1-6), Walton Vocational & Technical
  • 1965-66: East Ochlochnee (grades 1-8), Magnolia High & Elementary (1-12), New Union (1-8), North Boston (1-8), South Coolidge (1-8) (county): Douglass Elementary (1-6), Douglass High (7-12), S.H. Dunlap (1-6), Walton Vocational & Technical (city)
  • 1966-67: East Ochlochnee (grades 1-8), Magnolia High & Elementary (1-12), New Union (1-8), North Boston (1-8), South Coolidge (1-8) (county); Douglass Elementary (1-6), Douglass High (7-12), S.H. Dunlap (1-6), Walton Vocational & Technical (city)
  • 1967-68: East Ochlochnee (grades 1-8), Magnolia High & Elementary (1-12), New Union (1-8), North Boston (1-8), South Coolidge (1-8) (county); Douglass Elementary (1-6), Douglass High (7-12), S.. Dunlap (1-6) (city)
  • 1968-69: Magnolia High & Elementary (grades 1-12), North Boston (1-8), South Coolidge (1-8) (county); Douglass Elementary (1-6), Douglass High (7-12), S.H. Dunlap (1-6) (city)
  • 1969-70: Magnolia High & Elementary (grades 1-12), North Boston (1-8), South Coolidge (1-8) (county): Douglass Elementary (1-6), Douglass High (7-12), S.H. Dunlap (1-6) (city)
Additional notes
Most of Thomas County's rural elementary schools got new names c. 1960. It's probably not a bad guess that the strictly geographical renaming was to differentiate them from the historically white schools in their locations.