- Cherokee Middle School
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Cherokee Middle School CMS Established 1971 (as CMS) Closed in 2007 Type Middle School 5 - 8 Location 4595 Old Lee Hwy,
Cherokee, Alabama, USDistrict Colbert County Schools Accreditation Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Colors Royal Blue & Vegas Gold Mascot Indians Yearbook Traces Historic Name Cherokee High School Historic Significance An original Rosenwald School. Website http://www.colbert.k12.al.us/cms
Originally named Cherokee High School and was the segregated school for African American children.
Cherokee Middle School in September, 2007
Cherokee Middle School was located at the eastern limits of Cherokee, Alabama on the north side of County Road 20. It served the children of western Colbert County for grades 5 through 8. The decline of population in the western portion of the county caused the school to close at the end of the 2006 – 2007 school year and the grades merged into Cherokee High School and Cherokee Elementary.[1]
History
Cherokee Middle School was originally Cherokee High School and designated the segregated school for African American children. It was an original Rosenwald School. At that time the segregated school for “white” children was named Cherokee Vocational High School.[2] After the original junior high school building (located on the Cherokee Vocation High School campus) burned in January, 1971 Cherokee Middle School began handling grades 5 through 8. The original building was removed in the 1980s and now the oldest buildings on the campus were in built in the 1960s.
See also
The Rosenwald Schools Initiative
References
Coordinates: 34°44′15″N 87°53′22″W / 34.73750°N 87.88933°W
Categories:- Middle schools in Alabama
- Florence – Muscle Shoals metropolitan area
- Schools in Colbert County, Alabama
- Historically segregated African American schools in the United States
- Defunct schools in Alabama
- Educational institutions established in 1971
- Educational institutions disestablished in 2007
- Alabama school stubs
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