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Construction began December 1935. School opened September 14, 1936. Though ‘DeWitt Perry High School’ was in stone over the entrance, it was referred to as Carrollton High School and diplomas were issued in that name.
DeWitt Perry name officially recognized in 1962 when Turner High School opened and this became a junior high school. This is also the site of the first Carrollton High School building “Old Red” which opened on January 19, 1916. That two-story & basement building was built of red brick from the Carrollton Brick Company.
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The high schools became a consolidated co-ed Carrollton High School in 1912. [N 1] A separate feeder school, the "Maple Street School", was constructed on the namesake street in 1913, and children from the nearby "West View School" in Mandeville Mills were allowed to attend in 1922.
On November 10, 1959, under the direction of Mr. Haggard, [high school principal], the students moved into the new high school in 2 ½ hours. The new Carrollton High School was built on a forty-five acre tract extending from Leslie Street East to U.S. Highway 65 and from Eighth Street on South to Tenth Street on the North.
Aug 1, 2023 · The high school is one of three school buildings in the district built before 1970. It was the last building in the district renovated, undergoing work in 1990. The existing 162,141-square-foot Middle School, which houses grades 7 and 8, was built in 1913 with additions made in 1922, 1935 and 1954.
In 1825 a two-room school was built in West Carrollton. The school district organization within Miami Township was established in 1830, and in 1889 the newly-created West Carrollton School District elected its first board of education. There were 149 students in the eight-grade school in 1889.
The Carroll County Schools Performing Arts Center was opened in 2017 to accommodate various needs of the school district. Designed as a music hall, the school system claims the venue as "the most acoustically calibrated facility in the western portion of Georgia".
