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Profile: Troup County

Year Minimum Foundation building program completed
c. 1956.

Troup County, LaGrange city, West Point city and Hogansville city were all separate school districts. West Point's Harrison was finished in 1956. Little else is known about other building projects in other systems within Troup County.

Year of total integration
1970.

Hogansville's West End seems to have lost its high school in 1969, but none of the others. Complete integration appears to have been in 1970 for all four systems.

Known high schools
  • East Depot (LaGrange)
  • Ethel Kight (LaGrange/Troup County)
  • Harrison (West Point)
  • Tenth Street (West Point)
  • West End (Hogansville)

Tenth Street became Harrison in 1956, the new building named for West Point's superintendent of schools, W.T. Harrison. A handful of Black schools had the names of white superinendents bestowed upon them, including Burgess Landrum in Millen and Floyd T. Corry in Greensboro.

Known schools
  • 1952-53: Tenth Street (West Point); Davis (6 teachers), Ebenezer (8), Mount Beulah (3), Mount Pleasant (10), Pleasant Hill (5 teachers), Union (9) (full Troup County list)
  • 1953-54: West End
The Georgia Department of Education begins publishing a list of schools in 1956-57.
  • 1956-57: Ethel W. Kight Elementary & High (grades 1-12), Mount Pleasant (1-7); West End (1-12) (Hogansville city); East Depot High & Elementary (1-12), Jones Street (1-7), Kelley (1-7), Thomastown (1-7) (LaGrange city); Harrison (?-12), Tenth Street (1-7) (West Point city)
  • 1957-58: Ethel W. Kight Elementary & High (grades 1-12), Mount Pleasant (1-8); West End (1-12) (Hogansville city); East Depot Elementary (1-7), East Depot High (8-12) Jones Street (1-7), Kelley (1-7), Thomastown (1-7) (LaGrange city); Harrison (8-12), Tenth Street (1-7) (West Point city)
  • 1958-59: Ethel W. Kight Elementary & High (grades 1-12), Mount Pleasant (1-7); West End (1-12) (Hogansville city); East Depot Elementary (1-7), East Depot High (8-12) Jones Street (1-7), Kelley (1-7), Thomastown (1-7) (LaGrange city); Harrison (8-12), Tenth Street (1-7) (West Point city)
  • 1959-60: Ethel W. Kight Elementary & High (grades 1-12), Mount Pleasant (1-7); West End (1-12) (Hogansville city); East Depot Elementary (1-7), East Depot High (8-12) Jones Street (1-7), Kelley (1-7), Thomastown (1-7) (LaGrange city); Harrison (8-12), Tenth Street (1-7) (West Point city)
  • 1960-61: Ethel W. Kight Elementary & High (grades 1-12), Mount Pleasant (1-8); West End (1-12) (Hogansville city); East Depot Elementary (1-7), East Depot High (8-12) Jones Street (1-7), Kelley (1-7), Thomastown (1-7) (LaGrange city); Harrison (8-12), Tenth Street (1-7) (West Point city)
  • 1961-62: Ethel W. Kight Elementary & High (grades 1-12), Mount Pleasant (1-8); West End (1-12) (Hogansville city); East Depot Elementary (1-7), East Depot High (8-12) Jones Street (1-7), Kelley (1-7), Thomastown (1-7) (LaGrange city); Harrison (8-12), Tenth Street (1-7) (West Point city)
  • 1962-63: Ethel W. Kight Elementary & High (grades 1-12), Mount Pleasant (1-8); West End (1-12) (Hogansville city); East Depot Elementary (1-7), East Depot High (8-12) Jones Street (1-7), Kelley (1-7), Thomastown (1-7) (LaGrange city); Harrison (8-12), Tenth Street (1-7) (West Point city)
  • 1963-64: Ethel W. Kight Elementary & High (grades 1-12), Mount Pleasant (1-8); West End (1-12) (Hogansville city); East Depot Elementary (1-7), East Depot High (8-12) Jones Street (1-7), Kelley (1-7), Thomastown (1-7) (LaGrange city); Harrison (8-12), Tenth Street (1-7) (West Point city)
  • 1964-65: Ethel W. Kight Elementary & High (grades 1-12), Mount Pleasant (1-8); West End (1-12) (Hogansville city); East Depot Elementary (1-7), East Depot High (8-12) Jones Street (1-7), Kelley (1-7), Thomastown (1-7) (LaGrange city); Harrison (8-12), Tenth Street (1-7) (West Point city)
  • 1965-66: Ethel W. Kight Elementary & High (grades 1-12), Mount Pleasant (1-8); West End (1-12) (Hogansville city); East Depot Elementary (1-7), East Depot High (8-12) Jones Street (1-7), Kelley (1-7), Thomastown (1-7) (LaGrange city); Harrison (8-12), Tenth Street (1-7) (West Point city)
  • 1966-67: Ethel W. Kight Elementary & High (grades 1-12), Mount Pleasant (1-8); West End (1-12) (Hogansville city); East Depot Elementary (1-7), East Depot High (8-12), Kelley (1-7), Thomastown (1-7) (LaGrange city); Harrison (8-12), Tenth Street (K-7) (West Point city)
  • 1967-68: 1966-67: Ethel W. Kight Elementary & High (grades 1-12), Mount Pleasant (1-8); West End (1-12) (Hogansville city); East Depot Elementary (1-7), East Depot High (8-12), Kelley (1-7), Thomastown (1-7) (LaGrange city); Harrison (8-12), Tenth Street (K-7) (West Point city)
  • 1968-69: 1966-67: Ethel W. Kight Elementary & High (grades 1-12), Mount Pleasant (1-8); West End (1-12) (Hogansville city); East Depot Elementary (1-7), East Depot High (8-12), Kelley (1-7), Thomastown (1-7) (LaGrange city); Harrison (8-12), Tenth Street (K-7) (West Point city)
  • 1969-70: 1966-67: Ethel W. Kight Elementary & High (grades 1-12), Mount Pleasant (1-8); West End (K-8) (Hogansville city); East Depot Elementary (K-7), East Depot High (8-12), Kelley (K-7), Thomastown (K-7) (LaGrange city); Harrison (8-12), Tenth Street (1-7) (West Point city)
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