Clay County, Georgia
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School district history
Clay County High School opened in 1949, a combination of high schools at Fort Gaines and Bluffton[1]. The two consolidated for financial reasons. The state of Georgia only allotted 13 teachers for Clay's white schools, four fewer than a year previous[2]. Clay County High School received only four of these.
A. Speight High School closed after total integration with Clay County in 1970. In 1980[3], Clay and Randolph County high schools combined to form Randolph-Clay. Quitman County was originally included in plans, but was dropped as the school would have had more students than planned[4]. Quitman County later combined with Stewart County to form Stewart-Quitman.
Georgia had multi-county high schools at Randolph-Clay, Stewart-Quitman, Mitchell-Baker, Tri-County and Greene-Taliaferro in the 1980s and 1990s. Randolph-Clay is the only one still operating.
High school football history
Programs
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Notes:
- Clay County athletes can play football with Randolph-Clay, a high school that serves both counties.
- Fort Gaines played six-man football from 1938-41.