George Washington Carver School in Edna, formerly the Edna Colored School, graduated its first class in 1912. Although records from its early years are scarce, early settlers believed the first school building stood on the east side of Dry Creek where the police station now stands. Established during a tumultuous period in American social history, it operated within Edna's segregated school system, which continued on a two-race basis until 1965 despite a Supreme Court decision declaring segregation unconstitutional. In 1931, the Edna Colored School was moved to the southern portion of lots V and VI of Marvin's Second Addition, where it remained until 1953. In 1949, a new auditorium and gymnasium were built in the Harlem Addition to the school district, and during this period the school received its new name, George Washington Carver School. In 1954, E. T. and Maymie White-Rose gave land to the school district for a new school building, and several buildings from the Washington and Harris campus were moved to the new site. The Edna school district was finally integrated in 1967, when Edna High School's graduating class included its first African American students. Even under separate but equal, Carver School was a highly valued educational institution and a central place for Edna's black community. In 2008, it was sold to a non-profit group and became the George Washington Carver Center of Jackson County, Inc.