or over. Economy Sparta is the site of Georgia's Hancock State Prison. Education Hancock County School District The Hancock County School District holds pre-school to grade twelve, and consists of one elementary school, a middle school, and a high school. The district has 103 full-time teachers and over 1,659 students. Lewis Elementary School Hancock Central Middle School Hancock Central High School John Hancock Academy Notable people Thomas "Pee Wee" Butts – professional baseball player George Darden – United States Representative from Georgia who went to high school in Sparta Harvey Grant – professional basketball player Horace Grant – professional basketball player Tommy Hurricane Jackson – professional boxer Adella Hunt Logan – suffragist Jean Toomer – Harlem Renaissance writer and poet, once served as a principal in Sparta See also Central Savannah River Area Rossiter-Little House - Oldest house in Sparta References Further reading "History of Sparta, Georgia", Georgia Encyclopedia (John Rozier, Emory University), 12/5/2008 Kent Anderson Leslie, Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995). John Rozier, Black Boss: Political Revolution in a Georgia County (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1982). John Rozier, The Houses of Hancock, 1785-1865 (Decatur, Ga.: privately printed, 1996). John Rozier, ed., The Granite Farm Letters: The Civil War Correspondence of Edgeworth and Sallie Bird (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988). Forrest Shivers, The Land Between: A History of Hancock County, Georgia, to 1940 (Spartanburg, S.C.: Reprint Co., 1990). External links Sparta historical marker Sparta Cemetery historical marker Pierce Memorial Methodist Church historical marker Cities in Georgia (U.S. state) Cities in Hancock County, Georgia County seats in Georgia (U.S. state) Milledgeville micropolitan area, Georgia