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==Education== [[Gates County Schools]] has five schools ranging from [[pre-kindergarten]] to [[twelfth grade]]. Those five schools are separated into one [[High school (North America)|high school]] ([[Gates County Senior High School]]), one [[Middle school#Canada and the United States|middle school]], and three [[Elementary school#United States|elementary schools]].<ref>{{Cite web |year=2022 |title=North Carolina School Report Cards |url=https://ncreports.ondemand.sas.com/src/?county=Gates |access-date=October 15, 2023 |website=ncreports.ondemand.sas.com}}</ref> Gates County is quite prideful in its high school athletics. Gates County High School has won a state championship in football, in 1971. That team was led by legendary coach, Pete Smoak. Most recently, the football team has been successful in the Tar-Roanoke Conference, and winning the conference in 2010. The Red Barons galvanized the entire northeastern part of North Carolina, as it went on its improbable run, winning 11 games in a row, and going undefeated in the conference. This team was led by current head coach, Matt Biggy. In 2023 the Red Barons soccer team went undefeated in conference play<ref>{{Cite web |title=Standings - Gates County Red Barons (Gatesville, NC) Varsity Soccer |url=https://www.maxpreps.com/nc/gatesville/gates-county-red-barons/soccer/standings/ |access-date=October 28, 2023 |website=www.maxpreps.com}}</ref> and set a school record for soccer wins in a season, led by head coach Dominic Ross.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Staff β Gates County Red Barons (Gatesville, NC) Varsity Soccer 23β24 |url=https://www.maxpreps.com/nc/gatesville/gates-county-red-barons/soccer/staff/ |access-date=October 28, 2023 |website=www.maxpreps.com}}</ref> It is home to many athletes, including Thomas Smith, formerly of the Buffalo Bills, and Walter Smith I, formerly of the Toronto Argonauts. ===Rosenwald Schools=== {{main|Rosenwald School}} Rosenwald Schools were schools set up by money from the [[Rosenwald Fund]]. This fund was created in 1917 by [[Julius Rosenwald]], Chicago businessman and head of Sears Corporation to encourage construction of schools, mostly in the South, for rural black children who were underserved by the segregated public school system. The fund required communities to raise matching funds, including the use of public money and the support of school boards. At the time, the school boards were run by whites. Blacks had been [[Disfranchisement after Reconstruction era|disfranchised]] throughout the South since the turn of the century, so services for them were typically underfunded. Black communities strongly supported the schools, raising money, and sometimes contributing both land and labor. In effect they taxed themselves twice to support education. The schools were built to model designs developed by [[architects]] at [[Tuskegee University]], a [[historically black college]]. The Rosenwald Fund stimulated the construction of more than 4,977 schools and related structures for African-American children before the program ended in 1948 when the fund was depleted. Seven Rosenwald Schools built in communities in Gates County. In some areas, such schools have been converted to community centers and other uses.<ref>{{cite web | last=Hanchett | first=Thomas | title=NC Schools by County | url=http://www.rosenwaldplans.org/NCSchools.html | access-date=May 25, 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422155810/http://www.rosenwaldplans.org/NCSchools.html | archive-date=April 22, 2009 }}</ref> * Corapeake (still standing) * Reid's Grove (still standing) * T.S. Cooper * Hobbsvile * Reynoldson * Sunbury * Roduco
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