About Us

Valley Point School, 1934-2000 - Valley Point was the largest consolidated rural school in the state of Georgia during the 1930s and 1940s. The building merged the one- and two-room schools of the Carbondale, Center Point, Dug Gap, Five Springs, Redwine Cove, Tilton, and Union districts. The building was considered first class for a school in the early 1930s. It had good oiled floors to the keep the dust controlled. Each teacher was responsible for keeping the room clean. One side of each room was all windows. There was no artificial lighting except in the auditorium, office, library, and later added to the shop building and home economics room. Water was supplied by wells for drinking and restrooms. A back wing was added in 1939 for the high school. After 1954, the building housed grades 1-8 and the high school moved to a separate building west of this location. The last year of Valley Point High School was 1974-75. Southeast Whitfield High School opened in August 1975 and combined students from Valley Point High School and Eastbrook High School. The high school building became Valley Point Middle School, housing grades 6-8. In 2000, the historic 1934 building was torn down and replaced with the new (current) Valley Point Elementary School. In 2020, the historic 1953 building was torn down and replaced with the new (current) Valley Point Middle School.