The Fulton County school board has approved Asa Hilliard Elementary School as the name for the school under construction in East Point.
The former building, which opened as Mount Olive Elementary in 1960 and closed in 2014, was demolished last summer to make way for a new school opening this August. The board approved the name at a meeting Wednesday night.
The school’s namesake is the late Asa Grant Hilliard III, a prominent educator and East Point resident. Hilliard was a college professor at Georgia State University and formerly dean of the School of Education at San Francisco State University. He was married to Patsy Jo Hilliard, previously mayor of East Point, before his death in 2007.
Fulton’s is the fourth-largest school system in Georgia. Approximately 96,000 students attend 100 schools in the district.
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