Rosenwald High School

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Rosenwald High School (formerly New Roads High School, a.k.a New Roads Colored High School^[1]) was a school located on Louisiana Highway 10 in the city of New Roads, Louisiana. The school was originally opened in 1948 as New Roads High School and was located on upper Cemetery Street as an all black high school. In 1958, the school was merged with Rosenwald Elementary School and was moved to the New Roads Street location.^[2] In 1980, Rosenwald High was partnered with, the mostly white, Poydras High School as part of a desegreation plan similar to the plan involving Batchelor High School and Innis High School. After Poydras High closed in 1981, Rosenwald became the only public high school in New Roads. It was a high school in the Pointe Coupee Parish Public School system until after the 1990-91 school year, when the high school was closed down as part of a plan to combine all parish public schools into the newly formed Pointe Coupee Central High School. The school's mascots was the Trojans. It was named after philanthropist, Julius Rosenwald. The school has origins in the Rosenwald Schools of the early 1900's. The old Rosenwald High School building, located at 1100 New Roads Street, is currently home to Rosenwald Elementary School.