In 1909, by vote of the trustees of the La Porte School District, a school was organized for the black children of La Porte. Because there was no building for this purpose, classes were held in the Baptist Church, which served as a school during the week and as a church on Sunday. A few years later, Methodists on the northside built the building now at this site, and after the church did not survive, it was sold to the La Porte Independent School District. In this one-room building, one teacher taught grades one through six, and in its first year there were only ten students. Viola DeWalt, the first teacher, taught there for more than thirty years and was remembered for outstanding social and religious work and as a model in the community. Other teachers who contributed to the school's development were Marie Curry, Alice McDade, and Sweetie Evans. In 1943, the old Morgan's Point two-room school building, which had been moved to the site of La Porte Elementary School and used as a board room, was moved to its present site next to this building. The small school building was then used for music and dramatics, the two-room building served as classrooms, and an additional teacher was added. School for black children remained at this location until DeWalt Elementary School was built in 1953, where grades one through eight were taught, while pupils above the eighth grade were sent by bus to Carver High School in Baytown, Texas, in Goose Creek I.S.D. The schools operated in this way until La Porte schools were integrated in 1963-64. By 1988, the original building was owned by the Eastern Stars Leading Light No. 376, had been completely renovated, and stood as a model to the integrity of the school's pupils.