Lucy Laney Elementary School opened on this site in 1954 with the mission of educating black children in the Waverly Hall, Shiloh, Ellerslie, and surrounding areas. It was named for Lucy Craft Laney, a black educator from Augusta, GA. Edward F. Robinson served as the first principal, and grades 1 through 8 were taught there until the integration of area public schools in 1970. After integration, the school was renamed Waverly Hall Elementary. It closed in 1989, and the building was razed in 2004. Zade Kenimer was the original superintendent, and subsequent principals included William A. Long, Reverend George P. McKinney, Theodore C. Bowen, and Louie Otis Meadows, Jr.