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Archives Closed Schools T-Z: Twelfth Street Colored School

Other Name: McClellan, George M. Colored School, Wilson Street Colored School

Last Address: Wilson Street between 11th and 12th streets

Year Opened: 1897

Year Closed: 1907

The school opened at a location on 12th Street between Ormsby and Wilson streets.  It relocated to its last address in 1906.  The following year the school was renamed Wilson Street Colored School.  In 1934 the school was renamed again in honor of educator George M. McClellan.

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