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This is a list of some of the 5,000 Rosenwald Schools built across the South from Texas to Virginia and from Florida to Oklahoma. There once were 5,000 or so Rosenwald Schools in the United States, primarily serving Black Americans. At least 58 of these schools are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Notable examples listed by state include:
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
| Name | Image | Dates | Location | City, State | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Booker Grammar School | 1825 built | Lemon Avenue and 7th Street | Sarasota, Florida | formerly known as Sarasota Grammar School, and later moved to Emma E. Booker Elementary School | |
| Cocoa Junior High School | 
|
1824 built 2019 NRHP-listed |
307 Blake Avenue | Cocoa, Florida | |
| Dunbar School | Quincy, Florida | became William Stevens School and expanded to include William Stevens High School | |||
| Milner-Rosenwald Academy | 
|
1926 built 2009 Florida Historic Marker |
1560 Highland Street | Mount Dora, Florida | |
| Okahumpka Rosenwald School | 
|
1929 built 2022 NRHP-listed |
27908 Virgil Hawkins Circle | Okahumpka, Florida | |
| Orange City Colored School | 
|
1925 built 2003 NRHP-listed |
200 E. Blue Springs Avenue | Orange City, Florida | |
| Pompano Colored School | 1928 built | 718 NW Sixth Street | Pompano Beach, Florida | demolished in 1972 and the site is now Coleman Park | |
| Salem School | Gadsden County, Florida | ||||
| Sarasota Grammar School | Quincy, Florida | ||||
| The Rosenwald School | 624 Bay Street (now Avenue) | Panama City, Florida | Building stands but is not in use as a school. No relation to current Rosenwald High School in Panama City. |
Georgia (U.S. state)
| Name | Image | Dates | Location | City, State | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beulah Rucker House-School | 
|
1915 built
1995 NRHP-listed |
Gainesville, Georgia | ||
| Cusseta Industrial High School | .JPG)
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2011 NRHP-listed | 113 Sandy Road | Cusseta, Georgia | |
| Dewberry School | Rossville, Georgia | ||||
| Eleanor Roosevelt School | 
|
1936 built 2010 NRHP-listed |
350 Parham Street | Warm Springs, Georgia | also known as the Eleanor Roosevelt Vocational School for Colored Youth, and Warm Springs Negro School |
| Hamilton High School | 1924 built | Scottdale, Georgia | Formerly Avondale Colored School, and Avondale Elementary and High School | ||
| Hiram Colored School | 
|
1930 built
2001 NRHP-listed |
Hiram, Georgia | ||
| Thomas Jefferson Elder High and Industrial School | 
|
1927–1928 built 1981 NRHP-listed |
316 Hall Street | Sandersville, Georgia |
Kentucky
| Name | Image | Dates | Location | City, State | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cadentown School | 
|
c. 1879 built 1917 Rosenwald Fund |
705 Caden Lane | Lexington, Kentucky | |
| Cedar Grove Rosenwald School | 
|
1928 built 2002 NRHP-listed |
Olmstead, Kentucky | ||
| Douglass School | 
|
1929 built | 465 Price Road | Lexington, Kentucky | |
| Mays Lick Negro School | 
|
1921 built 2018 NRHP-listed |
5003 Raymond Road | Mays Lick, Kentucky | |
| Rosenwald School | 1926 built 1963 closed |
Fulton, Kentucky | |||
| Union Station School (Paducah, Kentucky) | 
|
1928 built 2011 NRHP-listed |
3138 Roosevelt Drive (also known as 3138 Flagman St.) | Paducah, Kentucky |
Louisiana
| Name | Image | Dates | Location | City, State | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|
1928–1929 built 2009 NRHP-listed |
460 State Rte 3015 | Grand Cane, Louisiana | NRHP-listed |
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|
1911 founded 1929 built (2nd building) 1996 NRHP-listed |
DeRidder, Louisiana | ||
| Longstreet Rosenwald School | 
|
1924 built 2009 NRHP-listed |
Longstreet, Louisiana | NRHP-listed | |
| Plaisance Rosenwald School | 
|
1921 built 2004 NRHP-listed |
3264 LA 167 | Plaisance, Louisiana | NRHP-listed |
| Rosenwald High School | 1922 built | New Roads, Louisiana | formerly New Roads High School |
Maryland
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Mississippi
| Name | Image | Dates | Location | City, State | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Washington Carver High School | 1919 built | Picayune, Mississippi | Formerly Pearl River County Training School | ||
| Henderson High School | 1927 built | 200 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Drive W | Starkville, Mississippi | Formerly Oktibbeha County Training School | |
| J.W. Randolph School | .jpg)
|
1928 built 2006 MS Landmark |
315 Clark Avenue | Pass Christian, Mississippi | Since 2000, the building was no longer used as a school |
| Little Red Schoolhouse | 1928 built | Drew, Mississippi | |||
| Sherman Line Rosenwald School | 
|
1928 built 2017 NRHP-listed |
3021 Sherman Church Road | Magnolia, Mississippi |
Missouri
| Name | Image | Dates | Location | City, State | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln School | 
|
1930 built | 815 N. Sherman Ave. | Springfield, Missouri | Currently Ozarks Technical Community College |
North Carolina
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Oklahoma
| Name | Image | Dates | Location | City, State | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arbeka Rosenwald School | 
|
1929 built | Arbeka, Oklahoma | Also known as "Arbeka U.G. School #1" | |
| Douglass School | 
|
1907 built 2008 NRHP-listed 2011 closed |
Lawton, Oklahoma | Also known as "Fredrick Douglass School" | |
| Kiowa County Sep. #1 | 
|
Hobart, Oklahoma | |||
| Lincoln Grade School | 
|
Lehigh, Oklahoma | |||
| Pleasant Hill School | 
|
McCurtain County, Oklahoma | |||
| Lima Rosenwald School | 
|
1921 built 1966 closed 1984 NRHP-listed |
College Street | Lima, Oklahoma | |
| Union School | 
|
Stella, Oklahoma |
South Carolina
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Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
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