Editing Americus, Georgia (section)

== Education ==
=== Primary and secondary schools ===
The [[Sumter County School District (Georgia)|Sumter County School District]] holds grades pre-school to twelfth, which consist of one primary school and one  elementary school, two middle schools, and two high schools.<ref name="Georgia Board of Education">[http://public.doe.k12.ga.us/ReportingFW.aspx?PageReq=111&PID=62&PTID=69&CountyId=729&T=0&FY=2008 Georgia Board of Education]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Retrieved June 26, 2010.</ref> The district has 353 full-time teachers and over 5,774 students.<ref>[http://www.school-stats.com/GA/SUMTER/SUMTER_COUNTY.html School Stats], Retrieved June 26, 2010.</ref>

Elementary schools:
*Sumter County Primary School
*Sumter County Elementary School
*Sumter County Intermediate School

Secondary schools:
*Sumter County Middle School
*Americus-Sumter Ninth Grade Academy
*Americus-Sumter County High School

K-12 charter school:
*Furlow Charter School

K-12 private school:
*[[Southland Academy]]

=== Higher education ===
*[[Georgia Southwestern State University]]<ref>[http://gsw.edu/main/ Georgia Southwestern State University] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706220823/http://gsw.edu/main/ |date=2010-07-06 }}, Retrieved June 26, 2010.</ref>
*[[South Georgia Technical College]]<ref>[http://www.southgatech.edu/index.cfm?PageID=122 South Georgia Technical College] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720045506/http://www.southgatech.edu/index.cfm?PageID=122 |date=July 20, 2011 }}, Retrieved June 26, 2010.</ref>

All schools and colleges are accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).

===Public libraries===
[[File:Lake Blackshear Regional Library.jpg|thumb|Lake Blackshear Regional Library of the [[Lake Blackshear Regional Library System]]]]
The community has the Lake Blackshear Regional Library, a part of the [[Lake Blackshear Regional Library System]]. It was temporarily relocated to a shirt factory warehouse also located in Americus after the tornado in 2007, but, once the reconstruction of the library finished around 2012, it was moved back to its original place.