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Elizabeth Elementary School
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Elizabeth School was a three-room, vernacular shingle-clad building on Groover Road that served Black students in 1938 and was funded by parents and the Works Progress Administration. Miles Edward Groover and his wife, Daisy Black Groover, donated two acres of land to the Jefferson Co. Board of Public Instruction, now the Jefferson Co. Public School District. Groover, who began teaching public school in 1902, is listed in the 1915 Florida Education Directory as principal at a monthly salary of $20. The Groovers' daughter, Doris Groover Herring, also taught at the school. Daisy's sister, Mamie Black Scott, was district supervisor of Negro Schools and later supervisor of Negro Education from 1927 to 1962, with her salary provided by the Anna T. Jeanes Foundation, which had set aside one million dollars to foster education in small, African-American rural schools. Three teachers staffed the school, with one serving as both principal and teacher. The school once educated students in 12 grades, but after student transportation began in 1949, it included only grades 1 through 6 and continued until it closed in 1964.
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