Colored school

Colored school is a term that has been historically used in the United States during the Jim Crow-era to refer to a segregated African American school or black school (which could be at any school type or level). It has also been used as a term used to describe historically black colleges and universities (HBCU).

Establishments called colored schools include:

  • Alapaha Colored School in Alapaha, Georgia; NRHP–listed
  • Ashburn Colored School in Ashburn, Virginia
  • Avondale Colored School in Scottdale, Georgia; later known as Hamilton High School
  • Bellevue Avenue Colored School in Trenton, New Jersey; NRHP–listed
  • Buena Vista Colored School in Buena Vista, Virginia; NRHP–listed
  • Calhoun Colored School in Calhoun, Alabama
  • Coinjock Colored School in Coinjock, North Carolina; NRHP–listed
  • Colored School No. 3 in New York City
  • Hampton Colored School in Hampton, South Carolina
  • Homer College, also known as Homer Colored College in Homer, Louisiana
  • Hiram Colored School in Hiram, Georgia; NRHP–listed
  • Jarvisburg Colored School in Jarvisburg, North Carolina
  • Magnolia Colored School Historic District in Magnolia, Arkansas
  • Millwood Colored School in Boyce, Virginia; now Millwood Community Center
  • Opelousas Colored School in Opelousas, Louisiana
  • Richmond City Colored School for African-American Children in Richmond, Kentucky; later known as Richmond High School
  • Sanibel Colored School in Sanibel, Florida; NRHP–listed
  • Seventh Street Colored School in Covington, Kentucky; later known as William Grant High School
  • Simmons Colored School in St. Louis, Missouri
  • State Colored Normal School (disambiguation)
  • Victoria Colored School in Victoria County, Texas
  • Virginia Avenue Colored School in Louisville, Kentucky; NRHP–listed
  • Virginia Industrial Home School for Colored Girls in Mechanicsville, Virginia; later known as Barrett Juvenile Correctional Center
  • Walnut Cove Colored School in Walnut Cove, North Carolina; also known as London School
  • Weston Colored School in Weston, West Virginia; also known as the Central West Virginia Genealogical & Historical Library and Museum and Frontier School
  • Williamston Colored School in Williamston, North Carolina
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