Before La Porte established a public school, African American students attended classes at a local church during the week while religious services were held there in the evenings and on weekends. Around 1909, a dedicated school building, the former Morgan's Point Methodist Church, was purchased and moved to this site. The one-room wood-frame schoolhouse served grades one through eight, and students who continued beyond eighth grade attended George Washington Carver High School in Baytown, eight miles to the northeast. According to oral history, Viola Dewalt taught at the school until her retirement in 1943, and her role was so central that many people called it Mrs. Dewalt's School. In 1943, a two-room building was moved to an adjacent lot, and classes shifted there, with grades one through four in one room and grades five through eight in the other. The smaller building kept its desks and stage for student plays and musical productions, and local churches used it for meetings and other events. In 1953, a new brick school for La Porte's African American community was built on North 6th and Madison, and this campus closed. During the 1980s and 1990s, the original one-room building served as a meeting hall for the La Porte Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star. Reconstructed with a new addition in 2018 using some salvaged original materials, the school remains a tangible reminder of early African American education in La Porte.