Athens School (No. 18) - a two-room, county school located at Athens, a small village along the Boonsboro Road in southeastern Fayette County. The school was established during the mid-1870s. In 1912, a new school building replaced the old wooden structure, as part of the county reorganization plan. The school taught grades 1 to 12. In 1917, the first graduating class for the high school had one pupil. In 1929, the county school board built a new high school building and the older school was converted to an elementary school. The high school was closed in the 1958, the junior high in 1966 and the elementary school in the 1990s. In 1967, the elementary school received additional classrooms.[i]
Athens School, circa 1901 <1901>
Girls Basketball Team, at Athens, circa 1912, with Mable Gentry Dulin holding the ball <Faulconer>
New Athens School, opened in 1912, as part of consolidation of county schools <Faulconer>
Cooking Class at Athens School, circa 1912 <Faulconer>
Industrial arts class at Athens School, circa 1912, with Nannie Faulconer supervising <Faulconer>
Athens High School, circa 1926 <Faulconer>
Athens Elementary School, circa 1926 <Faulconer>
[i] A Brief Account of Fayette County’s Elementary Schools, 1969-70 and Fayette County School’s website.
