Rosenwald High School was a school located on Louisiana Highway 10

Louisiana Highway 10

Louisiana Highway 10 is a state highway in south-central Louisiana. It runs from west to east for . The western terminus is at the intersection of U.S. Route 171 in Pickering, Louisiana in Vernon Parish near Fort Polk and the eastern terminus is in Bogalusa at Pearl River and the Louisiana line...

 in the city of New Roads, Louisiana

New Roads, Louisiana

New Roads is a city in and the parish seat of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States. The center of population of Louisiana is located in New Roads . The population was 4,996 at the 2000 census. The city's ZIP code is 70760...

. The school was originally opened in 1948 as New Roads Rosenwald Elementary School and was located on upper Cemetery Street. It was as an all black school that went up through the seventh grade. In 1950, an all black high school was opened in New Roads. This new school was the first all black high school in Pointe Coupee Parish. It was named New Roads High School. In 1958, the school was merged with Rosenwald Elementary School and was moved to the New Roads Street location. At this merger, the school was called New Roads Rosenwald High School. The name was later changed to simply Rosenwald High School. In 1980, Rosenwald High was partnered with, the mostly white, Poydras High School

Poydras High School

Poydras High School was a school located on Louisiana Highway 1 in the city of New Roads, Louisiana, United States.The school came into existence, in the early 19th century, in the form of several public schools in the parish known as "Poydras Schools"...

 as part of a desegreation plan similar to the plan involving Batchelor High School and Innis High School

Innis High School

Innis High School was a high school located in the village of Innis in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States, at 6450 Louisiana Highway 1. The school, originally called Innis Consolidated School, was established in 1906 on of land donated by the Innis family. It received accredation in...

. After Poydras High closed in 1981, Rosenwald became the only public high school in New Roads, and the only magnet high school in the parish. It was a high school in the Pointe Coupee Parish Public School system until after the 1990-91 school year, when the high school was closed down as part of a plan to combine all parish public schools into the newly formed Pointe Coupee Central High School

Pointe Coupee Central High School

Pointe Coupee Central High School is a public charter school located in the Labarre area of unincorporated Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States, on Louisiana Highway 1.The school's mailing address is actually listed as Morganza.-History:...

. The school's mascots was the Trojans

Sports teams named Trojans

"Trojans", evoking the soldiers of the ancient city of Troy depicted in The Iliad, is a popular name for modern sports teams, including those listed here.- Non-scholastic teams :* Rotterdam Trojans "Trojans", evoking the soldiers of the ancient city of Troy depicted in The Iliad, is a popular name...

. It was named after philanthropist, Julius Rosenwald

Julius Rosenwald

Julius Rosenwald was a U.S. clothier, manufacturer, business executive, and philanthropist. He is best known as a part-owner and leader of Sears, Roebuck and Company, and for the Rosenwald Fund which donated millions to support the education of African American children in the rural South, as well...

. The school has origins in the Rosenwald School

Rosenwald School

A Rosenwald School was the name informally applied to over five thousand schools, shops, and teachers' homes in the United States which were built primarily for the education of African-Americans in the early twentieth century. The need arose from the chronic underfunding of public education for...

s of the early 1900's. The old Rosenwald High School building, located at 1100 New Roads Street, is currently home to Rosenwald Elementary School.