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Profile: Wilkinson County

Year Minimum Foundation building program completed
1957.

T.C. Calhoun combines all high school grades in Irwinton, with a new elementary, Hall-Monroe, built in Gordon, and Bertha Alvin, located in Danville.

Year of total integration
1970.

Known high schools
  • Brundage Mountain (McIntyre)
  • Danville Consolidated High School for Negroes
  • T.C. Calhoun (Irwinton)
  • Toomsboro Rosenwald
T.C. Calhoun opened in 1957, combining the other three's high school grades.
Known schools
  • 1940-41: Irwinton, Toomsboro Rosenwald
  • 1941-42: Brundage Mountain, Gordon Colored, Irwinton
  • 1946-47: [Allentown, Gordon, Irwinton, McIntyre, Toomsboro]
  • 1947-48: Providence
  • 1950-51: Seven schools consolidated (08/18/1950 Bulletin); "Several schools consolidated" (08/11/1950 Wilkinson County News)
  • 1953-54: Brundage Mountain (High)
  • 1954-55: Danville Consolidated High School for Negroes
  • 1956-57: Irwinton Junior High, Toomsboro Rosenwald
The Georgia Department of Education begins publishing a list of schools in 1956-57.
  • 1956-57: Brundage Mountain (grades 1-12), Danville Consolidated (1-12), Gordon (1-12), Irwinton Junior High (1-12), Toomsboro Rosenwald (1-12). Not a complete list.
  • 1957-58: Bertha Alvin (grades 1-7), T.C. Calhoun (1-12), Hall-Monroe (1-7)
  • 1958-59: Bertha Alvin (grades 1-7), T.C. Calhoun (1-12), Hall-Monroe (1-7)
  • 1959-60: Bertha Alvin (grades 1-7), T.C. Calhoun (1-12), Hall-Monroe (1-7)
  • 1960-61: Bertha Alvin (grades 1-7), T.C. Calhoun (1-12), Hall-Monroe (1-7)
  • 1961-62: Bertha Alvin (grades 1-7), T.C. Calhoun (1-12), Hall-Monroe (1-7)
  • 1962-63: Bertha Alvin (grades 1-7), T.C. Calhoun (1-12), Hall-Monroe (1-7)
  • 1963-64: Bertha Alvin (grades 1-7), T.C. Calhoun (1-12), Hall-Monroe (1-7)
  • 1964-65: Bertha Alvin (grades 1-7), T.C. Calhoun (1-12), Hall-Monroe (1-7)
  • 1965-66: Bertha Alvin (grades 1-7), T.C. Calhoun (1-12), Hall-Monroe (1-7)
  • 1966-67: Bertha Alvin (grades 1-7), T.C. Calhoun (1-12), Hall-Monroe (1-7)
  • 1967-68: Bertha Alvin (grades 1-7), T.C. Calhoun (1-12), Hall-Monroe (1-7)
  • 1968-69: T.C. Calhoun Elementary (grades 1-7), T.C. Calhoun High (8-12)
  • 1969-70: T.C. Calhoun Elementary (grades 1-7), T.C. Calhoun High (8-12)
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