Joel Elias Spingarn High School was a public high school located in the District of Columbia, United States. Founded in 1952, the school was the last segregated high school built in …

Built between 1951 and 1952, Spingarn High School was constructed for the education of African American students, meant to relieve the overcrowding of the other segregated high schools …

This was a segregated public high school for Black students in the District of Columbia. The school is named after Joel Elias Spingarn, a white-American Jewish educator and activist.

Spingarn Senior High School (Closed 2014) in Washington, DC serves 374 students in grades 9-12. View their 2025-26 rankings, test scores, reviews and more.

Spingarn High School owes its existence to two factors: a tradition and a trend. The tradition was a segregated school system, the trend was the rapid increase in the school age population …

Spingarn High School opened in 1952, as a new and modern segregated high school for African American students. It was the last segregated high school built in Washington, DC, just two …

Nov 15, 2023 · A new era of learning is coming to D.C.’s old Spingarn High School. Mayor Muriel Bowser, other city leaders and proud alums of the historic school gathered to “break ground” …

Nov 15, 2023 · (Washington, DC)—Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser kicked off the transformation of the historic Spingarn High School as the building is reconfigured to house the new DC …

Joel Elias Spingarn High School was a public high school located in the District of Columbia, United States. Founded in 1952, the school was the last segregated high school built in …

It was the last segregated high school built in Washington, DC, just two years before the U.S. Supreme Court ended school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education.