Built in 1923 for African American students in Lockhart, this school used, according to local tradition, materials salvaged from Ross Institute, a former school for Lockhart's caucasian children. The Rosenwald Foundation of Chicago provided the design and part of the construction cost, while the school district and local African American citizens raised most of the money needed to complete it. Before its construction, African American children attended classes at scattered locations around town, with elementary students meeting at Sunset School, Mt. Salem Methodist Episcopal Church, or the Masonic Lodge, and high school students using a building on Live Oak Street that also served as a funeral parlor and domino hall. The two-story brick and stucco schoolhouse had six classrooms, a principal's office, and a large auditorium that also functioned as a neighborhood social center. Its unadorned main facade featured prominent brick and stucco pilasters rising above the parapet, the east and west sides had large banks of windows for natural light, and the lower level had a central portico with double doors dividing the principal facade. R.A. Atkinson was its first principal, and it received state accreditation in 1926. At that time, it offered two years of high school coursework, and students could attend twelfth grade in Luling. In 1946, it was renamed G.W. Carver High School. It closed in 1964 because of school integration, and the building was later used by the head start program.