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        "The Academy Act passed by the legislature in December 1833 gave birth to Midway School, a male and female academy.  It continued in this manner until 1848, when the school was divided according to sex, and the female seminary was founded.  The male section eventually became Oglethorpe University.

        The school was name Midway because it was located in the Midway community, "two and one-half miles southwest of Milledgeville."  The community was so named because it lay midway between Milledgeville and Scottsboro.

        Throughout the years various school were located on the site.  During the 1880's Midway operated as a one-room or two-room school building "heated by a fire in an open fire place.  There were no desks, just crude tables and small chairs.  Lunches were carried in tin buckets."  Lunch may have "consisted of cold sweet potatoes, biscuits with a hole in the center with syrup poured in the opening.  Sometimes cold ham and sausage were taken."

        "For many years Midway was a Junior High School.  Those who completed this part of their formal education would continue at Peabody or Georgia Military School."  During the 1937-38 school year Midway graduated its first "class from a Senior High School.  There were five candidates for certificates of graduation.  They included James Davis, Mattie Lingold, Grace Califf, Lily Kate McCluney and Joe Davis.

        "This great institution remained a Senior High School with its last graduating class of 1956.  Baldwin High then received Midway in consolidation."  After 1956, Midway housed only grades 1-7 and later Kindergarten through fifth.

        Midway moved to its present site and new building on November 15, 1993.  It now houses Pre-Kindergarten through fifth grade.

·        History of Midway by Sarah Frances Ivey