Dunbar Junior and Senior High School and Junior College

Wright Ave. and Ringo St., Little Rock, Arkansas. County/parish: Pulaski.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 06, 1980. NRIS 80000782.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • Dunbar High School

From Wikipedia:

Dunbar Magnet Middle School

Dunbar Gifted & Talented Education International Studies Magnet Middle School is a magnet middle school for students in grades 6 through 8 located in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. Dunbar Magnet Middle School is administered by the Little Rock School District. It is named for the nationally known African-American poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar.

With construction supported by the Rosenwald Fund and a matching program, the school was built in 1929. For nearly three decades it provided comprehensive education for black students in Little Rock, under a segregated system. Its curriculum covered junior and senior high school classes, as well as some junior college. After 1955 the junior college was discontinued and, with construction of a new high school, this building was devoted to junior high school. Later it was adapted as a magnet middle school in the public school system.

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