San Felipe ISD operated a school for African American students for a short time in the 1930s and again from 1945 to 1956. Langston School on de la Rosa Street was named for Langston Hughes, a notable writer of the Harlem Renaissance. San Felipe ISD bought the property in 1934 and built a two-room schoolhouse with one classroom and a smaller storeroom. Sparse records indicate that Langston had no principal and one teacher at a time, who taught up to thirty students in grades one through eight. Students who wished to attend high school went to Del Rio’s Tarver School or as far as San Antonio or Houston. Langston School also had a parent-teacher association. As the school district integrated, Langston closed in 1957.