Colored school

Colored school is a term that has been historically used in the United States during the Jim Crow-era to refer to a segregated African American school or black school (which could be at any school type or level). It has also been used as a term used to describe historically black colleges and universities (HBCU).

Establishments called colored schools include:


 * Alapaha Colored School in Alapaha, Georgia; NRHP–listed
 * Ashburn Colored School in Ashburn, Virginia
 * Avondale Colored School in Scottdale, Georgia; later known as Hamilton High School
 * Bellevue Avenue Colored School in Trenton, New Jersey; NRHP–listed
 * Buena Vista Colored School in Buena Vista, Virginia; NRHP–listed
 * Calhoun Colored School in Calhoun, Alabama
 * Coinjock Colored School in Coinjock, North Carolina; NRHP–listed
 * Colored School No. 3 in New York City
 * Hampton Colored School in Hampton, South Carolina
 * Homer College, also known as Homer Colored College in Homer, Louisiana
 * Hiram Colored School in Hiram, Georgia; NRHP–listed
 * Jarvisburg Colored School in Jarvisburg, North Carolina
 * Magnolia Colored School Historic District in Magnolia, Arkansas
 * Millwood Colored School in Boyce, Virginia; now Millwood Community Center
 * Opelousas Colored School in Opelousas, Louisiana
 * Richmond City Colored School for African-American Children in Richmond, Kentucky; later known as Richmond High School
 * Sanibel Colored School in Sanibel, Florida; NRHP–listed
 * Seventh Street Colored School in Covington, Kentucky; later known as William Grant High School
 * Simmons Colored School in St. Louis, Missouri
 * State Colored Normal School (disambiguation)
 * Victoria Colored School in Victoria County, Texas
 * Virginia Avenue Colored School in Louisville, Kentucky; NRHP–listed
 * Virginia Industrial Home School for Colored Girls in Mechanicsville, Virginia; later known as Barrett Juvenile Correctional Center
 * Walnut Cove Colored School in Walnut Cove, North Carolina; also known as London School
 * Weston Colored School in Weston, West Virginia; also known as the Central West Virginia Genealogical & Historical Library and Museum and Frontier School
 * Williamston Colored School in Williamston, North Carolina

Schools with related names

 * Colored Music Settlement School
 * Colored Memorial School and Risley High School
 * Halltown Colored Free School
 * Normal School for Colored Girls