Lanier High School (Macon, Georgia)

Central High School
Address
2155 Napier Avenue Macon, Georgia 31204 United States
Information
Type	Public magnet high school
Motto	"We Lead; It Can Be Done"
Established	1870, 1913, 1970, 2009
School district	Bibb County School District
Principal	Emanuel Frazier
Color(s)
Athletics	Major sports include football, basketball, baseball and soccer
Mascot	Chargers
Telephone	(478) 779-2300
Mission statement	"Unique in Our Accomplishments, United to Educate and to Serve Beyond Self"
Website	http://schools.bibb.k12.ga.us/csd/

Central High School, also known as Central-Macon, Central-Bibb, and Central Fine Arts and International Baccalaureate Magnet High School, is a high school in Macon, Georgia, United States, serving students in grades 9–12. It is a unit of the Bibb County Public School System.

Before the Civil War, the Bibb County Academy was operated as a public school; a county poor student fund paid the tuition for students unable to pay. In 1870, when Georgia established a true public school system, the Bibb County Board of Education and Orphanage was established to operate a school system for the county. The new board created grammar schools in each ward of the city and The Central High School. The name was changed to Gresham High in the late 1880s, and the school remained open until 1913. The building later served as Gresham Grammar School.

In 1913, the county opened Lanier High School on Forsyth Street, named for poet and Macon native Sidney Lanier. The school split in 1924 into separate schools for boys and girls, with the boys moving to a campus on Holt Avenue, and the girls remaining on Forsyth Street. In 1949, Lanier added a junior high school on Hendley Street.

In 1932, Bibb County opened A.L. Miller Senior High School for Girls, named for Alexander Lawton Miller, on Montpelier Avenue, blocks from Lanier's Holt campus. The original Forsyth Street campus continued to house a junior high school for girls until February 1950, when Miller Junior High School opened next door to Miller Senior High School.

The Lanier Poets won numerous state athletic titles, and became a basketball powerhouse. The school's JROTC program received national honors.

1958 marked a major change for public education in Bibb County, as Willingham and McEvoy High Schools opened for boys and girls, respectively, meaning that for the first time, white students in Bibb County were divided by attendance zones.

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