AFRICAN AMERICAN SCHOOL BUILDING REVIVAL
Pine View High School
St. Tammany Parish
In Covington, Louisiana, high schools were once segregated by gender as well as race. Pine View High School was a school for Black female students when it first opened, but beginning in the 1966 school year, Black male students from Rosenwald-Covington High School just down the street were transferred to Pine View as well, as it was a newly constructed school building. Pine View remained open as a co-ed facility from 1966-1969 until it was merged with Covington High School (formerly the White school) in 1970 with integration. For many, the closing of Pine View was traumatic, as the students didn’t want to leave their beloved new school building to go to a school that was at least 50 years old. Mr. J. Franklin Owens was the principal of Pine View in its last year of 1969. Its last graduating class had 59 students, with a total of 302 students in grades 9-12, and 28 faculty members at the time. The school reopened c. 1970 as Pine View Middle School, and its library is named in honor of principal Franklin Owens, who continued to serve as principal of the reopened school.
Pine View High School
OPENED: 1965
CLOSED: N/A
OTHER NAMES OF SCHOOL: Pine View Middle School
OTHER USES/CURRENT USE: Middle school
1200 W. 27th Avenue
Covington, LA 70433
