Editing Gainesville, Georgia (section)

==Education==
Three African Americans, Beulah Rucker, E. E. Butler, and Ulysses Byas were educational pioneers in Gainesville and Hall County. Rucker founded Timber Ridge Elementary School, the first school for Black children in Gainesville, in 1911. In 1951 she established a night high school for African-American veterans, which was the only High School for veterans in Georgia. E. E. Butler served as an educator for just one year before earning his Physician's license. In 1954, he became one of two who became the first Black men on the Gainesville City Schools Board of Education, a very unusual situation in the United States. When the schools were integrated in 1969, Byas, like most Black school principals was offered a demotion. Rather than take a job as an assistant principal at Gainesville High School, he moved to [[Tuskegee, Alabama]], where he became the nation's first Black school superintendent.<ref name="Cared">{{cite journal|last1=Pitts|first1=Winfred E.|title=Three Who Cared: Beulah Rucker, E. E. Butler, and Ulysses Byas--Twentieth-Century Trailblazers in Education for African Americans in Gainesville, Georgia|journal=Georgia Historical Quarterly|date=2003|volume=87|issue=2|pages=245–275|url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=10756747&site=eds-live&scope=site|access-date=19 February 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40584671|jstor = 40584671|title = Three Who Cared: Beulah Rucker, e. E. Butler, and Ulysses Byas—Twentieth-Century Trailblazers in Education for African Americans in Gainesville, Georgia|last1 = Pitts|first1 = Winfred E.|journal = The Georgia Historical Quarterly|year = 2003|volume = 87|issue = 2|pages = 245–274}}</ref>

===Historical schools===
[[Butler High School (Gainesville, Georgia)|E. E. Butler High School]] was a segregated school created in 1962 in response to court demands for equalization of resources for Black students. After the integration of public schools, it was closed in 1969.<ref name="Moffson">{{cite web |last1=Moffson |first1=Steven |title=Equalization Schools in Georgia's African-American Communities, 1951-1970 |url=https://www.dca.ga.gov/sites/default/files/equalization_schools_in_georgia_0.pdf |publisher=Historic Preservation Division Georgia Department of Natural Resources |access-date=18 February 2022 |date=September 20, 2010}}</ref>

===Gainesville City School District===
The [[Gainesville City School District]] holds pre-school to grade twelve, and consists of five elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school.<ref>[http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/ReportingFW.aspx?PageReq=111&PID=62&PTID=69&CountyId=776&T=0&FY=2009 Georgia Board of Education]{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Retrieved June 9, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.gcssk12.net/ Gainesville City School District], Retrieved June 9, 2010.</ref> The district has 282 full-time teachers and over 4,438 students.<ref>[http://www.school-stats.com/GA/HALL/GAINESVILLE_CITY.html School Stats] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140713024553/http://www.school-stats.com/GA/HALL/GAINESVILLE_CITY.html |date=2014-07-13 }}, Retrieved June 9, 2010.</ref>  Its lone high school, [[Gainesville High School (Georgia)|Gainesville High School]] boasts several notable alumni, including [[Deshaun Watson]], [[Cleveland Browns]] quarterback, [[Cris Carpenter]], former professional baseball player ([[St. Louis Cardinals]], [[Florida Marlins]], [[Texas Rangers (baseball)|Texas Rangers]], [[Milwaukee Brewers]]), [[Tasha Humphrey]], professional basketball player, and [[Micah Owings]], current professional baseball player ([[Arizona Diamondbacks]], [[Cincinnati Reds]], [[San Diego Padres]]). The mascot for Gainesville High School is the Red Elephant.

===Hall County School District===
The [[Hall County School District]] holds pre-school to grade twelve, and consists of twenty-one elementary schools, six middle schools, and seven high schools.<ref>[http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/ReportingFW.aspx?PageReq=111&PID=62&PTID=69&CountyId=669&T=0&FY=2009 Georgia Board of Education]{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Retrieved June 9, 2010.</ref> The district has 1,337 full-time teachers and over 21,730 students.<ref>[http://www.school-stats.com/GA/HALL/HALL_COUNTY.html School Stats] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140713040700/http://www.school-stats.com/GA/HALL/HALL_COUNTY.html |date=2014-07-13 }}, Retrieved June 9, 2010.</ref> The high schools in this district have produced a number of notable alumni including, [[Connor Shaw]], starting quarterback for the [[University of South Carolina]] Gamecocks football team; [[Casey Cagle]], Lt. Governor, State of Georgia; James Mills, Georgia State Representative; [[A.J. Styles]], professional wrestler; [[Deshaun Watson]], starting quarterback for the Houston Texans, [[Mike Wilson (offensive lineman)|Mike "MoonPie" Wilson]], former NFL football player; [[Chester Willis]], former [[NFL]] football player; [[Jody Davis (baseball)|Jody Davis]], former catcher for [[Chicago Cubs]] and [[Atlanta Braves]] baseball teams; [[Billy Greer]], bass guitarist for progressive rock band [[Kansas (band)|Kansas]]; [[Corey Hulsey]], former [[NFL]] [[Oakland Raiders]] football player; [[Robin Spriggs]], author and actor; and [[Martrez Milner]], [[American football]] [[tight end]].

===Private education===

Notable private schools in Gainesville include: [[Riverside Military Academy]], a private, college preparatory, boarding and day school for boys in grades 6 through 12; and [[Lakeview Academy]], a private, nondenominational, coeducational day school for students in preschool through 12th grade. From 1928 to 2011, Gainesville was also home to [[Brenau University#Brenau Academy|Brenau Academy]], a female, college preparatory, residential school for grades 9–12, and a part of the [[Brenau University]] system. However, in 2011 Brenau Academy was revamped into a program allowing qualified young women to earn college credits during the time in their lives in which they would normally complete high school studies.

===Higher education===
Gainesville has several institutions of higher education: [[University of North Georgia]] (formerly [[Gainesville State College]]), which was established January 8, 2013, as a result of the consolidation of North Georgia College and State University and Gainesville State College; [[Brenau University]], a private, not-for-profit, undergraduate- and graduate-level higher education institution; the Interactive College of Technology; and Lanier Technical College.