Peabody School, also referred to as Peabody Model School, which was developed to become Peabody High School in 1927, was a

public school Public school may refer to: * State school (known as a public school in many countries), a no-fee school, publicly funded and operated by the government * Public school (United Kingdom), certain elite fee-charging independent schools in England an ...

and

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for girls in

Milledgeville, Georgia Milledgeville is a city in and the county seat of Baldwin County in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is northeast of Macon and bordered on the east by the Oconee River. The rapid current of the river here made this an attractive location to buil ...

. It was established in 1891 and phased out in the 1970s. It was on the campus of the Georgia Normal and Industrial College which became Georgia State College for Women and later Georgia College. Education program students from the college observed classes and seniors taught at the school for an hour per week. The Peabody Child & Family Center became an offshoot and operated until 2000. A historical marker, garden, and scholarship fund at the college commemorate its existence.

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Peabody High School

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