Built as a junior high school to serve the area around Little Five Points in 1923, the school was named for Confederate Captain William A. Bass. Known as the "School on the Hill," the facility became a high school in 1947. After 67 years, the school — listed on the National Register of Historic Places — closed in 1990 and reopened as lofts in 1998.

Originally opened as one of the original Atlanta Public schools in 1872, the school moved to a grand building just east of Grant Park in 1925. When Atlanta high schools became co-ed in 1947, the school was renamed Roosevelt High School after the recently deceased president. The school operated in the building until 1985, when it was converted into apartments.

Constructed as Moreland Elementary School in 1919, the building served Inman and Candler Park communities as a public school for 63 years. Upon closing in 1982, the facility began to house local service groups and was rechristened as the Little Five Points Community Center. Today the building houses a range of functions including the Horizon Theatre Company and the Seed & Feed Marching Abominable's HQ.

Built in 1914 on the northern fringes of Midtown, Spring Street Elementary School was the first elementary school in Atlanta to be integrated — with the children of Coretta and Martin Luther King Jr. and Juanita and Ralph David Abernathy in attendance — according to the Saporta Report. The building became the Center for Puppetry Arts in 1978; a fanciful new addition to the center debuted last year, obscuring the original building from its namesake street.

The Inman Park Schoolhouse has stood on Edgewood Avenue for more than 125 years, around the corner from present-day Krog Street Market. The work of Gottfried Norrman — a noted Swedish-born architect who built homes around Inman Park and structures for the International Cotton Exhibition of 1881 — the building is now 13 airy lofts.

Built in 1910, the old brick school in the heart of Kirkwood earned a slot on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002 and was converted to Kirkwood School Lofts in 2005. Just a few of the 24 units have become available through resale since then, according to allatlantalofts.com.