Clermont’s Legacy of Learning

Education in the Clermont community has deep roots in Hall County’s history. In the late 1880s or early 1890s, Concord Baptist Church established a small two-teacher school known as Concord Academy, which later moved into a church house on the site where Concord’s chapel stands today.

By 1901, the Chattahoochee Baptist Association founded Chattahoochee High School, a graded institution serving first through twelfth grades. The school began in a two-story building that also housed Concord Academy Elementary, with about 150 students enrolled. Tuition was $1 per month with an incidental fee of ten cents, while students boarding in the dormitory paid $5–$6 monthly. The dormitory’s cornerstone, dating to 1905, remains a reminder of those early days.

In 1936, a new Clermont School House was constructed through public works programs, continuing the area’s proud tradition of education. When Clermont Elementary later merged with Brookton Elementary in 1976 to form Wauka Mountain Elementary, it marked not an end but a continuation of more than a century of learning in the community.