One of less than a score of Rosenwald school buildings remaining in the state, this is also the most intact Rosenwald Plan No. 400. The clapboard building, painted brown with cream trim, has a clipped gable roof. Each large bank of windows indicates a classroom—four in all. The two front rooms combined via folding doors into an assembly room for school and community gatherings. A one-classroom Rosenwald addition on the west end and a two-classroom east addition (c. 1950) were removed during repairs after Hurricane Katrina’s winds damaged the roof in 2005. The concrete water fountain to the east of the building was made and dedicated by the Class of 1944. This was the only high school available to African Americans in the county when it opened, and at its height in the 1940s it included a vocational building, a cafeteria, girls and boys dormitories, and two houses for teachers.
Many of the school’s high school students transferred from Mt. Moriah grammar school five miles away at 152 Mt. Moriah Road. This four-classroom school housed grades 1–8 and was built in 1931 by the community from concrete blocks made on site to a standard state plan. Damaged in Hurricane Katrina, it has since been restored as a community center.