Colored school is a term that has been historically used in the United States during the Jim Crow-era to refer to a segregated African American school or black school (which could be at any school type or level). It has also been used as a term used to describe historically black colleges and universities (HBCU).
Establishments called colored schools include:
Abbeville Colored School in Abbeville, Mississippi; NRHP-listed Alapaha Colored School in Alapaha, Georgia; NRHP–listed Ashburn Colored School in Ashburn, Virginia Avondale Colored School in Scottdale, Georgia; later known as Hamilton High School Bellevue Avenue Colored School in Trenton, New Jersey; NRHP–listed Brooklyn Colored School in Brooklyn (now Oakland), Alameda County, California Buena Vista Colored School in Buena Vista, Virginia; NRHP–listed Calhoun Colored School in Calhoun, Alabama Coinjock Colored School in Coinjock, North Carolina; NRHP–listed Colored School No. 3 in New York City DeLeon Springs Colored School in DeLeon, Florida; NRHP-listed Douglass Colored School in Lawton, Oklahoma; NRHP-listed Hampton Colored School in Hampton, South Carolina Homer College, also known as Homer Colored College in Homer, Louisiana Hiram Colored School in Hiram, Georgia; NRHP–listed Jarvisburg Colored School in Jarvisburg, North Carolina Laurel Grove Colored School and Church in Franconia, Virginia Magnolia Colored School Historic District in Magnolia, Arkansas Millwood Colored School in Boyce, Virginia; now Millwood Community Center Opelousas Colored School in Opelousas, Louisiana Pine Grove Colored School in St. Andrews, South Carolina; later Pine Grove Rosenwald School; NRHP-listed Richmond City Colored School for African-American Children in Richmond, Kentucky; later known as Richmond High School Rock Hill Colored School in Frisco, Texas San Francisco Colored School in San Francisco, California Sanibel Colored School in Sanibel, Florida; NRHP–listed Seventh Street Colored School in Covington, Kentucky; later known as William Grant High School Simmons Colored School in St. Louis, Missouri Smithville Colored School in Colesville, Maryland State Colored Normal School (disambiguation) Victoria Colored School in Victoria County, Texas Virginia Avenue Colored School in Louisville, Kentucky; NRHP–listed Virginia Industrial Home School for Colored Girls in Mechanicsville, Virginia; later known as Barrett Juvenile Correctional Center Walnut Cove Colored School in Walnut Cove, North Carolina; also known as London School Weston Colored School in Weston, West Virginia; also known as the Central West Virginia Genealogical & Historical Library and Museum and Frontier School Williamston Colored School in Williamston, North Carolina
See also Colored, a racial descriptor historically used in the United States Colored High School
Schools with related names Colored Music Settlement School Colored Memorial School and Risley High School Halltown Colored Free School Normal School for Colored Girls