Berea School

The first Berea School at this location opened in 1916 as a two-story building with an auditorium on the second floor. A basketball team was formed in 1924, and in 1930 a new auditorium and gymnasium were added. In 1939 the original school was replaced by a new brick building funded by the Work Projects Administration, which also funded a cannery and potato house to serve the community. The school housed students from elementary through high school until 1962, when the high school students moved to a new campus, leaving grades 1-6 at this location. In 1970 sixth-grade students were transferred as part of the county’s plans for racial integration, and kindergarten was added in 1973. It continued operating as an elementary school until a new Berea Elementary opened in 1998. Berea was among the last remaining Work Projects Administration-funded school campuses in Greenville County when it was razed in 2017.

Berea, South Carolina · United States