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Fulton school board names East Point school Asa Hilliard Elementary

SCHOOL WORK--Evergreen construction and sub-contractor crews work on the ceiling, windows, painting and electrical inside the new elementary school that is scheduled to be completed in the fall. The new building will have 77 classrooms on about 38 acres of land. Cherokee County schools are moving forward with an ELOST vote in November. We take a look at this new elementary school in construction along Hunt Road in Acworth Wednesday, May 25, 2011.
SCHOOL WORK--Evergreen construction and sub-contractor crews work on the ceiling, windows, painting and electrical inside the new elementary school that is scheduled to be completed in the fall. The new building will have 77 classrooms on about 38 acres of land. Cherokee County schools are moving forward with an ELOST vote in November. We take a look at this new elementary school in construction along Hunt Road in Acworth Wednesday, May 25, 2011.
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June 19, 2015

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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