Andrew Jackson School

The Andrew Jackson School, named for a local Black entrepreneur, was built here in 1924-25 to serve African American students. The Black community raised half of the $5,467 cost of the three-classroom building. Additional support came from the county and from Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck, and Co., who had partnered with Booker T. Washington in a school-building campaign and later established the Rosenwald Fund, which helped build about 5,000 schools for African Americans in the South. Before closing in 1959, Andrew Jackson offered education through the 11th grade, but Black students had to leave the county for 12th grade. Page County schools were desegregated in 1966.