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History of Inman Middle School Inman Middle School began life as an elementary school in 1924. The school was named for Samuel Martin Inman (1843-1915), a cotton merchant born in Dandridge, Tennessee who was a successful Atlanta businessman and civic leader. The nearby Inman Park neighborhood, a Victorian suburb developed in the late 1880s and 1890s, is also named for Samual Inman. Over the years, the school has been enlarged many times, with major additions 1929, 1937-38, 1963, 1981, 1984, and 1994. In 1978, when faced with a decline in enrollment and the need to relocate the middle school at O'Keefe, the Atlanta Board of Education decided to convert Inman into a Middle School serving students from grade 6 through 8.