AFRICAN AMERICAN SCHOOL BUILDING REVIVAL
Ville Platte Negro School
Evangeline Parish
Ville Platte Negro School began as a small, one room school to educate the local African American children. The first graduating class consisted of less that 10 students. However, as demand increased for African American education in Ville Platte, funding was raised to build a new school building. This school would be named after the late Reverend and local education activist James Stephens. James Stephens High School would remain until the 1970s. It stood vacant until reopening as James Stephens Montessori School for grades PreK-6 in the early 2000s.
Ville Platte Negro School
OPENED: 1941
CLOSED: N/A
OTHER NAMES OF SCHOOL: James Stephens High School, James Stephens Montessori School
OTHER USES/CURRENT USE: Elementary school
1500 Martin Luther King Drive
Ville Platte, LA 70586
