AFRICAN AMERICAN SCHOOL BUILDING REVIVAL
Rosenwald-Covington High School
St. Tammany Parish
Rosenwald-Covington High School was for Black male students in Covington, while Black female students attended nearby Pine View High School. The school began around 1925, after patrons of Covington Colored School finished raising the $1,000 needed to build a new school. The school board kept their promise to add $5,000 to the total funds, and then made an application to the Rosenwald Fund for an additional $1,100 to build a new school. Professor James A. Harrison became the first principal when Covington Rosenwald opened in 1927. 100 students were registered in two grades in 1934. After a new school building was completed in November 1949, Rosenwald opened as a high school in 1950. The new high school building modernized facilities and added classrooms for upper level grades. The four-room Rosenwald School with its potbelly stove remained as classrooms for third, fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. Professor Harrison retired in 1957, and the school closed in 1966 when its male students integrated at newly co-ed Pine View High School. The building is now in use as James A. Harrison Curriculum Center, named in honor of the former high school's first principal.
Rosenwald-Covington High School
OPENED: 1949
CLOSED: N/A
OTHER NAMES OF SCHOOL: Covington Negro High School, Covington Colored School, Covington Training School, James A. Harrison Curriculum Center
OTHER USES/CURRENT USE: Curriculum center
706 W. 28th Avenue
Covington, LA 70433
