AFRICAN AMERICAN SCHOOL BUILDING REVIVAL
Rayne Negro School
Acadia Parish
When Mary Ella Armstrong, New Orleans native and Southern University graduate, moved to Acadia Parish she taught many boys and girls in the Cunningham Church. She worked to raise funds to secure a building that could be used to teach African American children. For many years she was a third grade teacher at the Acadia Parish Training School and in 1927 she was selected to serve as principal of Midland School. Following in Armstrong‘s footsteps, Professor Clark, born in Lecompte, Louisiana, served as an assistant to the Acadia superintendent and was appointed in 1915 to principal of Acadia Parish Training School. The school was later renamed Armstrong High School in honor of Ella Armstrong and her contributions to Acadia Parish.
Rayne Negro School
OPENED: 1960
CLOSED: N/A
OTHER NAMES OF SCHOOL: Acadia Parish Training School, Armstrong High School
OTHER USES/CURRENT USE: High school
700 Martin Luther King Drive
Rayne, LA 70578
