Editing Dahlonega, Georgia (section)

==Education==

=== Lumpkin County School District ===
The [[Lumpkin County School District]] holds pre-school to grade twelve, and consists of three 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=693&T=0&FY=2009 Georgia Board of Education] {{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}. Retrieved June 23, 2010.</ref> The district has 215 full-time teachers and over 3,511 students.<ref>[http://www.school-stats.com/GA/LUMPKIN/LUMPKIN_COUNTY.html School Stats] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121052820/http://www.school-stats.com/GA/LUMPKIN/LUMPKIN_COUNTY.html |df=mdy-all |date=2008-11-21}}. Retrieved June 23, 2010.</ref>
*Cottrell Elementary School
*Long Branch Elementary School
*Blackburn Elementary School
*Lumpkin County Middle School
*Lumpkin County High School

=== Higher education ===
Dahlonega is home to [[University of North Georgia]] (formerly named North Georgia College and State University), North Georgia College and North Georgia Agricultural College, the [[Senior Military College]] of Georgia and the second oldest public university in the State of Georgia. The University of North Georgia is one of six senior military colleges (along with the Public Campuses of Texas A&M University, the Citadel, the Virginia Military Institute and Virginia Tech, and the Private Campus of Norwich University). The campus' administration building, Price Memorial Hall, is topped with a [[spire]] covered with [[gold leaf]] from the town. The [[rotunda (architecture)|rotunda]] [[dome]] of the [[Georgia State Capitol]] in [[Atlanta]] is also covered with Dahlonega gold.

=== Other educational facilities ===
* Wahsega 4-H Center,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090116231313/http://wahsega4h.org/default.htm Wahsega 4-H Center]</ref> an environmental education center and summer camp owned by the [[University of Georgia]] and administered through the UGA Cooperative Extension Service [[Georgia 4-H]] program
* Camp Glisson,<ref>[http://www.campglisson.org/ Camp Glisson]</ref> a year-round retreat camp owned by the North Georgia Conference of the [[United Methodist Church]]