History
Monitor Elementary School was first located at the corner of Ocmulgee Street and Walden Avenue in Fitzgerald, Georgia. However, due to the growing African American community and the deterioration of the old school, the Board of Education approved that the construction of the new school. The new school site was located on South Monitor Drive. The building was completed in 1927.
The new school was called Fitzgerald Public School, later it was called Monitor High School. Professor D.S. Collins was named as principal. There were eight teachers on staff and the new school consisted of seven classrooms for academic subjects and one home economics room. In 1931, the first graduating class numbered three students. The second graduating class only saw one graduate. In 1939 a new building was added to the school site. Called the "High School Building," this structure included a library. Later, a home economics building and an elementary classroom building were added. The funds for the new buildings were from the Julius Rosenwald Fund, an education foundation.
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