Pike Road High School

Founding and early history The school was founded in 1893 by Georgia Washington (1851-1952), a woman who was born a slave in Virginia; she was sold along with her mother, away from her father. called the People's Village School. At the time, Mount Meigs was a rural area with a significant African-American population, and the school's first building was a small cabin, 12 by 13 feet, where Washington had four boys as students. Washington is buried on the school grounds. It became a junior high school in 1970, and a middle school in 2012. By 2017 enrollment was 600. ==Notable alumni==