Quick List of GIA (and pre-GIA) High Schools
- GOLD - Still exists under same name
- SILVER - High school that existed in the GHSA but now closed
- SKY BLUE - High school that closed with integration
- GREEN - High school closed prior to integration
- * - Private school
Notes:
- Dates apply to high schools ONLY. Several buildings were recycled post-integration as middle or elementary schools, but nearly all of them under different names.
- Closing dates might not be 100% accurate for high schools. For systems that eliminated one high school with total integration, this is going by that year. That year may be off by one (hopefully, that's as inaccurate as it gets) as this list is reliant on Georgia Department of Education school lists.
- Consolidation and building programs under the Minimum Foundation Program caused a ton of changes and eliminated most rural schools. In one single swoop, Burke County went from 42 African-American schools to six. Likewise, Oglethorpe County went from 20 (or 21) to one.
- It is difficult to establish which schools contained high school grades. The vast majority did not, but a few did. Even with local newspaper research, no doubt a few will be missing from the list as depending on paper, African-American schools got little to no coverage in this era (and depending on paper, it was marginally better post-mid-1950s).
School
City
Dates
Nickname(s)
Colors
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Appling County |
Appling County Consolidated
Baxley
-1970
Rams
Appling [County] Training
Rural school that was listed as a high school in the early 1950s
Baxley Training
Baxley
-1955
Atkinson County |
Atkinson County Training
Pearson
-1970
Rams
Bacon County |
Alma Consolidated
Alma
-1969
Tigers
Baker County |
East Baker
Newton
Bears
Baldwin County |
Boddie
Milledgeville
-1970
Rattlers
Maroon & White
Carver
Milledgeville
Became an elementary when Boddie opened
* Eddy
Milledgeville
Banks County |
no high school; students sent to Johntown in Commerce through 1954, then to Cornelia Regional
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Barrow County |
Fairfield
Statham
Briefly had a high school; school completely closed in 1957.
Glenwood
Winder
-1970
Hornets; Tigers
Bartow County |
Summer Hill
Cartersville
-1968
Blue Devils
Ben Hill County |
Monitor
Fitzgerald
-1971
Eagles
Gold & Maroon
Queensland
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