History
In 1957, voters in Lowndes County approved an $800,000 bond issue and the board got assistance from the State of Georgia for the construction of a new high school.
Lowndes County High School (LCHS) opened in 1959 in the southern portion of the county below Valdosta and served a totally white enrollment of 671 students. In 1961 students from the black high schools, Lowndes County Training School and Webb-Miller consolidated into Westside High School.
In 1966 LCHS and Hahira High School consolidated to form the new Lowndes High School (LHS) and began with an enrollment of 805. The new school was relocated to its present facility on Norman Drive near I-75 in the western side of Lowndes County. The former facility became Lowndes Middle School.
In 1969, when the county integrated their schools, the former black school, Westside High School was also combined into Lowndes. LHS became a comprehensive high school in 1972 and was classified as a Georgia School of Excellence in 1980.
Lowndes High School is now one of the largest high schools in the state of Georgia with a student enrollment of over 3000 students and 170 faculty members.
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