Georgia Washington Junior High School Mount Meigs Alabama

Pike Road Schools is a school district headquartered in unincorporated

Montgomery County, Alabama Montgomery County is a county located in the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, its population was 228,954, making it the seventh-most populous county in Alabama. Its county seat is Montgomery, the state capital. Montgomery County ...

. It serves the community of Pike Road. In 2019 Pike Road Schools's board of trustees agreed to allow

Maxwell Air Force Base Maxwell Air Force Base , officially known as Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base, is a United States Air Force (USAF) installation under the Air Education and Training Command (AETC). The installation is located in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. ...

on-post families to send their children to

Pike Road High School Pike Road High School is a public school in Pike Road, Alabama, United States, a part of Pike Road Schools. The school site was home to the People's Village School, later renamed Georgia Washington Middle School, until it was acquired by the s ...

. In August 2019, of the children who were dependents of military families attached to Maxwell AFB who were enrolled in public schools, 7.59% attended Pike Road schools.

History

Montgomery Public Schools Montgomery Public Schools is a school district headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. The current Superintendent of Montgomery Public Schools is Melvin Brown. The district serves the city of Montgomery and surrounding Montgomery ...

gave approval to the separation of the Pike Road district in 2013. The Pike Road district began educational operations in 2015, with a

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. It was to add one year per grade level. As a result, the overall student body in the Montgomery district had a higher percentage of African Americans as non-African Americans had left the district. In 2017 the Montgomery district agreed to sell Georgia Washington Middle School to the Pike Road district. The building was sold so the Pike Road district could quickly acquire space to build a senior high. In 2018 the contract of sale was signed. It became

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