Caswell County High School Consolidation

High School Consolidation: Caswell County, North Carolina

Prospect Hill High School

In the early 1960s the Caswell County Board of Education decided that all Caswell County high school students eventually would attend Bartlett Yancey High School in Yanceyville ("BYHS"). Anderson High School students were the first to move to BYHS in the fall of 1962. Cobb Memorial High School students joined in 1964.

Oddly, while closure of the Prospect Hill School had been debated since the early 1950s it was the last to send its high school students to Yanceyville (1966). Prospect Hill residents, led by Geneva Elizabeth Williams Warren (Mrs. Joseph Hardy Warren) (1922-1992), fought consolidation for decades. The community even raised money to pay teachers in order to avoid consolidation at Yanceyville.

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Plans were considered as early as 1924 to consolidate Caswell County schools. However, it was not until 1966 that high school consolidation was completed (when Prospect Hill High School finally was consolidated with Bartlett Yancey High School).

In 1924, Caswell County had twenty-one small one-teacher schools, presumably just counting white schools. Some private academies still were operating, and Leasburg, Milton, and Yanceyville had what could be described as high schools. Photograph: Poteat one-room school house.

Today (2022), Caswell County has only six schools: four elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school.

North Elementary School

Oakwood Elementary School

South Elementary School

Stoney Creek Elementary School

N. L. Dillard Middle School

Bartlett Yancey Senior High School [which is incorrectly named because there is no Bartlett Yancey Junior High School]