630 West Main Street, Luray, Virginia 22835; 38.66486 N, 78.47271 W
Directions from Jackie’s Beauty Salon to Site 13:
Open in 1926 for black students, having only grades 1-7. Eventually grades were added up the 11th grade. For students to receive a high school diploma their families would send them out of state to stay with family or friends of the family. Some went to Boardentown school in New Jersey or Manassas Regional High School, in Manassas, Virginia. The Andrew Jackson School closed in 1960 when the West Luray School (Site #6) opened.
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From Page Valley News; Feb. 3, 2023 by Randy Arrington: More than 50 people gathered in front of the West Luray Recreation Center (known as “TheREC”) on Saturday afternoon for the unveiling of a historical maker honoring the building’s previous life as a school for black students in Page County.
“The Andrew Jackson School, named for a local Black entrepreneur, was built here in 1924-25 to serve African American students,” the new historical marker reads, “"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.”"
“The Andrew Jackson School, named for a local Black entrepreneur, was built here in 1924-25 to serve African American students,” the new historical marker reads, “"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.”"