Peter G. Appling

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Peter G. Appling was an African-American high school in Macon.

History

Peter G. Appling High School opened in 1958 with an enrollment of 932 in its first year. Until its opening, Macon's only black high school was Ballard-Hudson. Unlike their white counterparts in this era, Macon's black high schools were coeducational.

Macon's high schools fully integrated and became coed in 1970.

Football

Peter G. Appling began as a member of the Georgia Interscholastic Association with its first football team in 1959, but moved to the Georgia High School Association in 1968.