Laurel Hill School served African American families mainly from the community of Alvin. It was founded by the 1910s, when around thirty students attended. Classes were held in a wooden one-room schoolhouse and at a local church before moving to this site by 1940. A pair of cypress trees flanked the entrance off the road. The school built here was a larger white-painted frame building with a tin roof. In 1953-54, it enrolled 147 pupils in grades 1-6. The next year, it was one of several Berkeley County schools to close during consolidation. The building was then repurposed as the Alvin Community Center, burned in 1979, and the center moved to a new site across the road in 1986.