the poverty line, including 20.9% of those under the age of eighteen and 9.4% of those 65 or over. Education Oglethorpe County School District The Oglethorpe County School District holds pre-school to grade twelve, and consists of a primary school (preK-2), an elementary school (3-5), a middle school (6-8), and a high school (9-12). The district has 145 full-time teachers and over 2,281 students. Oglethorpe County Elementary School Oglethorpe County Primary School Oglethorpe County Middle School Oglethorpe County High School Notable people Nathan Crawford Barnett, member of the Georgia House of Representatives and Georgia Secretary of State for more than 30 years. Raised in Lexington, and educated at the Lexington Academy Clifford Cleveland Brooks, planter and politician; member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1924 to 1932, born in Lexington in 1886 William Harris Crawford, lawyer and politician George Rockingham Gilmer, statesman and politician Joseph Henry Lumpkin, lawyer Wilson Lumpkin, lawyer and politician Stephen Upson, lawyer and politician References Cities in Georgia (U.S. state) Cities in Oglethorpe County, Georgia County seats in Georgia (U.S. state) Athens – Clarke County metropolitan area