Built in 1928 and founded by the Marlboro Education Society, this school was the first high school for black students in the county. It was accredited by the state as a four-year high school by 1939. Serving as an elementary and high school from 1928 to 1956, it included grades 1 through 11 until 1948 and added grade 12 in 1949. It was an elementary school from 1956 to 1972, then a child development center for the school district until 1987. The Colonial Revival building was designed by Bennettsville architect Henry Dudley Harrall (1878-1959). Also called Marlboro County Training High School, it was led longest by principal Charles D. Wright, Sr., who served from 1929 until his death in 1949 and was responsible for many advances in its curriculum. The building has housed a local non-profit community center since 1988.