Rockmart, Georgia The City of Rockmart Rockmart Downtown Historic District Rockmart Downtown Historic District Location in Polk County and the state of Georgia Location in Polk County and the state of Georgia Website City of Rockmart, Georgia Official Website Rockmart is a town/city in Polk County, Georgia, United States.

Rockmart advanced as a barns depot town when the Southern Railway assembled a station in the area. The improve was incorporated in 1872, and was titled from abundant deposits of slate in the area. The Rockmart Downtown Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Rockmart is positioned at 34 00 14 N 85 02 57 W. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.4 square miles (11 km2), of which 4.3 square miles (11 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) (0.69%) is water.

The majority of the town/city of Rockmart is positioned in Polk County; however, parts of Rockmart stretch into Paulding County as well.

In the city, the populace was spread out with 26.7% under the age of 18, 8.7% from 18 to 24, 27.3% from 25 to 44, 20.6% from 45 to 64, and 16.7% who were 65 years of age or older.

The Drama Department at Rockmart High School is known for its involvement with the improve and every spring the advanced acting class performs at a GHSA One-act play competition.

When the new Rockmart High School was constructed, performance space was not included.

Instead, the Rockmart Thespians use the historic Rockmart Art Center Theatre for their productions.

In October 2008, the Rockmart High School Thespians placed first at the Region AA One Act Competition with their performance of Godspell, as well as receiving the Best Actor award.

The RHS Thespians then took the show to the State AA One Act Competition and placed 3rd out of four schools. As of 2016, RHS Graduate and theatre department alumnus Lucas Camp worked inside the New York City Broadway improve with productions of Mary Poppins and Newsies which he later toured with.

In 2013, Rockmart Thespians placed first in the State AAA One Act Competition with a riveting manufacturing of the thriller When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?.

Another meaningful addition to the performing arts in Rockmart is the Rockmart High Marching Yellow Jackets.

Parks and recreation areas in Rockmart include the Nathan Dean Complex, the Silver Comet Trail & Riverwalk Park, as well as Rockmart City Parks. Other appointed positions include the town/city clerk, town/city attorney, town/city auditor, and town/city court judge.

The town/city of Rockmart is a part of the Polk County School District. It has one high school, Rockmart High School; one middle school, Rockmart Middle School; and two elementary schools, Eastside Elementary and Van Wert Elementary.

Rockmart High School is the only high school in the town/city of Rockmart and serves the Aragon improve as well.

As of the 2011/12 school year, the school had an enrollment of 837 students and 50.10 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 16.71.

In 1912, the Georgia Legislature created the enhance school fitness in the state of Georgia.

That year, the town/city of Rockmart began the Rockmart School System in the building vacated by the Piedmont Institution (established in 1889 by the Methodist North Georgia Annual Conference).

It had closed after a 23-year existence in 1912, after it was purchased by the Rockmart School Board of trustees.

Rockmart High School was in the building until it burned down in 1915.

Prior to the Polk County School System of Georgia, RHS had its own town/city school fitness and rival school Cedartown High School also had its own town/city school fitness in Cedartown.

The Polk County ground of Georgia Northwestern Technical College is also positioned in Rockmart.

Prior to the ethnic integration of the Polk County School System, two high schools existed in Rockmart Rockmart High School and Elm Street High School which served the African American improve of Rockmart.

The integration of the school fitness began in the year 1964 when some African American students began attending Rockmart High School until total integration was accomplished in 1965 with the method of Elm Street High School.

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