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Carroll County, Georgia: 10 local scholarships and counting

Carroll County has 10 local scholarships in our catalog so far, from 3 sponsors that limit them to students from this part of Georgia. 8 of them are tied to a school district, so the high school your student attends matters here. We keep searching and add new local scholarships as we find them, so this number grows.

$11,500or more
in scholarships written only for students in or from Carroll County. That adds up the 3 of 10 scholarships that publish an amount, one winner each; the rest do not say. Some give more than one.
3
local sponsors, including 2 school and district foundations and 1 electric or utility co-op
Feb
most deadlines in February
63
more state scholarships and grants limited to Georgia students

3 big ones to start with

3 of the 10, picked for size and for a deadline you can plan around. The other 7, with every rule, deadline and what each one asks for, are on your student's board.

Class of 1982 Breaking Barriers Scholarship (Carrollton City Schools Education Foundation)Deadline February 21, 2027 · one school or district only
$10,000
Walter Harrison Scholarship (Carroll EMC)Deadline January 29, 2027
$1,000
Carroll County HBCU Alumni Association High School ScholarshipDeadline not posted yet
$500
See the other 7 and which ones your student fits

Who gives in Carroll County

Each sponsor counted once, by kind. A community foundation often runs dozens of separate funds through one application, so it can be one sponsor with many scholarships.

Who gives locallySponsorsScholarships
Electric and utility co-ops11
School district and school foundations29
All local sponsors310

A school district with its own scholarships

Carrollton City Schools has 8 scholarships only its own students can apply for. If your student goes to school there, the board asks which one and adds them.

When the deadlines fall

Most of the posted deadlines fall in February. Counted from the 9 scholarships here with a posted date. Local applications often open only a few weeks before they close, so the time to get ready is the fall before.

How Carroll County compares

That is about 3 times as many as the typical Georgia county, which has 3, and ranks tied for 6th of Georgia's 159 counties. On top of the local list, Georgia students can look at 63 state scholarships and grants limited to the state but not to one county, and the national ones. Across Georgia we have found 248 local scholarships in 148 counties. See every Georgia county.

Counties next to Carroll County

All 8 counties that border Carroll County have local scholarships in our catalog too. Some sponsors cover several counties, and a student who lives in one county and goes to school in another can sometimes apply on both sides.

Fulton County (7)Randolph County, AL (6)Cleburne County, AL (5)Coweta County (3)Paulding County (3)Douglas County (2)Haralson County (1)Heard County (1)

The closest public universities, after HOPE

What a year costs at the three Georgia public universities nearest Carroll County: tuition, fees, housing and meals for 2026-27 from each college's own published figures, minus Georgia's HOPE Scholarship.

UniversityMilesAfter HOPE, a year
University of West Georgiaunder 5$13,060
Georgia Tech40$16,250
Georgia State University40$17,740

Miles are a straight line from the middle of the county, rounded to the nearest 5. Compare every Georgia public university.

The other 7 are on the board.

Answer a few questions and see how many of the 12,000+ scholarships we track fit your student, local ones included. Their own board, with every name, rule and deadline, is $149 for the school year.

See which ones your student fits

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Questions families ask

Why only 3 here?

The full list, with each one's rules and deadlines, is the product. We read each one from the sponsor's own page and recheck it on a schedule, and that work is what the $149 board pays for. The 3 above show the list is real; the board shows which of the 10 your student fits.

Does every student in Carroll County fit all 10?

No. Most local scholarships add their own rules on top of where you live: one high school, a GPA floor, a planned major, a parent who is a member or a customer. The board asks about those once and shows the ones your student fits, with what each one still asks you to check.

How current is this?

Counted from our catalog on November 2, 2026. We add new local scholarships every week, so the numbers here usually go up.

Counts, amounts and deadline months come from each sponsor's own published rules and can change without notice. Totals add one winner of each scholarship; sponsors that do not publish an amount are not counted in the dollar total. A deadline month is from the most recent cycle we could find. College prices are estimates to plan with, not a quote. Confirm anything you act on with the sponsor or the college.