Taylor County High School (Georgia)

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Taylor County High School
Address
Taylor County High School (Georgia)
24 Oak Street

Butler, Georgia
31006
Information
School typePublic
Established1956
School district Taylor County School District
NCES District ID1304800
SuperintendentJennifer Albriton
NCES School ID130480002440
PrincipalLilia Parks
Grades9-12
Enrollment366
Student to teacher ratio12.41
Color(s)Blue, Gold, White
MascotVikings

Taylor County High School is a public high school in Butler, Georgia, and the only public high school in the rural county. It is in the Taylor County School District. [1] Vikings are the school mascot and the school colors are blue, gold, and white. [2]

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It was preceded by Butler Female College and Male Institute.

In 1955 Mauk School was consolidated into Taylor High School. The old school building turned community center is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [3] Reynolds High School in Reynolds, Georgia was consolidated into it in the 1960s. [4]

Byrd v. United States was described as a case of six "Negro" students being assigned, against their wishes, to a school with a white student body. [5] In 1969, the school district was put under court jurisdiction. The student body of schools in recent decades has been roughly evenly split between whites and blacks. [6]

From 1967-1972 the Lady Vikings basketball team never lost a game. The team won 132 games and five state championships. [7]

The school's first integrated prom was held in 2003. [8] [9]

Alumni

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Taylor County High School in Butler, GA - US News Best High Schools". Archived from the original on December 25, 2023. Retrieved August 14, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Taylor County (Butler, GA) High School Sports - Football, Basketball, Baseball, Softball, Volleyball, and more". www.maxpreps.com.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 1, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ↑ "[Photograph of Reynolds High School, Reynolds, Taylor County, Georgia] - Digital Library of Georgia". dlg.usg.edu.
  5. ↑ Rights, United States Congress House Committee on the Judiciary Special Subcommittee on Civil (December 25, 1966). "Guidelines for School Desegregation: Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee on Civil Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, Second Session". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on January 25, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ↑ "There Was Once a Team: The story of the Taylor County Lady Vikings". January 3, 2022.
  8. ↑ "Georgia Town Holds First Integrated Prom". ABC News.
  9. ↑ "Ga. county's last trace of segregation comes to end on students' prom night". May 5, 2002.

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