Archives Closed Schools T-Z: Tenth Ward Colored School

Other Name: 10th Ward Colored School; Tenth Ward School; Coleridge-Taylor Elementary

Last Address: 13th and Green Streets

Year Opened: 1911

Year Closed: 1913

The Tenth Ward School became the Tenth Ward Colored School in 1911 when it became a school for black children.  In 1912 the school had eighteen classrooms and a kindergarten.  The school's name was changed to Coleridge-Taylor in 1913 in honor of English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.