Pike Road High School

[2] 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.

[3] After emancipation she graduated from Hampton University (1882), an HBCU in Virginia where she taught for a while before moving to Mount Meigs, Alabama, where she started a small school,[4] called the People's Village School.

At the time, Mount Meigs was a rural area with a significant African-American population,[5] and the school's first building was a small cabin, 12 by 13 feet, where Washington had four boys as students.

[3] In 2018, controversy arose because the Montgomery school system, headed by an interim superintendent while under state oversight, announced the sale of the school to the Pike Road Municipal school system; a lawsuit to stop the sale was filed by the Alabama Education Association on behalf of three teachers and parents.

[5] The Alabama Supreme Court allowed the sale.