Mt. Nebo Elementary School, a Rosenwald school in the formerly segregated Prichard's Addition/Atkins Quarters in Monroe, Louisiana, was built in 1924 as a large one-room schoolhouse with interior movable divides that initially educated children in 1st through 8th grades. It opened in November 1924 with 120 pupils and three teachers assigned by the Board of Education. Severe overcrowding was reduced a few years later when it became a 1st through 4th grade elementary school. It continued serving Monroe’s Black community until it closed in the 1960s when federal law mandated integration. During the 1920s and 1930s, eight Rosenwald schools and one teacher’s home were built in Ouachita Parish, including Britton-Chambers, McHenry-Mineral Springs, Mt Nebo-Monroe, Sterlington-Swartz, and West Monroe, and Rosenwald schools became the foundation of formal education for African Americans in Ouachita Parish. The wider Rosenwald school movement grew from a partnership begun in 1911 between Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee Institute and Julius Rosenwald, which led to the Rosenwald Fund in 1917 to support education for African American children in the South through matching grants, technical support, local fundraising, and public funds. The fund closed in 1948 after helping build more than 4,977 schools in 15 southern states; one-third of all Black children attended a Rosenwald school, and 395 were built in Louisiana.