Edythe J. Hayes Middle School - located at 260 Richardson Place. The school was named after Edythe Jones Hayes[1], an Assistant Superintendent of the Fayette County Schools. The facility opened in the fall of 2004.
Edythe J. Hayes Middle School, 2010 <FCPS>
[1] Hayes was born in Selma, Alabama and graduated with a Master Degree in Education from the University of Kentucky in 1953, at the age of 19. In 1953, she was hired as a teacher at George Washington Carver Elementary School. Later she became the school’s principal and Deputy Superintendent of the Fayette County Board of Education, the first black to hold the post. She retired in 1993, after 40 years with the school system, and died in 1999.
References:
William M. Ambrose, Bluegrass Schools, Limestone Press, Lexington, 2012.
