The first public school for African American children in this area was Goose Creek School for Coloreds, founded in 1921 as a grade school serving children from Baytown, La Porte, Cedar Bayou, and McNair, with classes also held in Mt. Rose Baptist Church. Its first principal, Anna B. Edwards, was paid $90 per month. A frame school building at the northwest corner of Carver St. and Oak St. (now Martin Luther King Dr.) opened in the fall of 1924, and a brick addition in 1927 expanded the school to the ninth grade. By June 1940, the school was renamed for scientist, educator, inventor, and botanist George Washington Carver, and in 1941 it was accredited as a four-year high school. In 1948, a larger modern campus opened four blocks east at Carver St. and Lee Dr., while the old building became an elementary school. Carver High was consistently ranked as one of the top segregated schools in the state, and its students excelled in academics and athletics, winning nine state band competitions and eight state sports championships in the Prairie View Interscholastic League. Only five principals led the school in 46 years: Ernest A. Archia, William M. Davis, Clyde J. Messiah, Edward F. Green, and George Perkins. The high school closed after the 1966-1967 school year because of desegregation. Carver Elementary School then operated here from 1967 until 1995, when a former oil storage pit was discovered on the property. The buildings were demolished in 2002, and a new Carver Elementary was dedicated at a nearby site. The school, which originally laid the educational foundation for area black children, continues to educate the Baytown community.