On September 5, 1961, Doretha and Cynthia Montague, enrolled in the first and third grades and integrated Stafford schools by entering Stafford Elementary School (today’s Bandy Building).

Almost a year later, on August 26, 1962, 34 eleventh and twelfth grade students were transferred to Stafford High School en masse. Integration was completed by 1964, a decade after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision, but reportedly the first school system to integrate in the region.