George Washington Carver Senior High School (Florida)

George Washington Carver Middle School
Address
4901 Lincoln Drive Coral Gables, Florida, (Dade County) 33133 United States
Information
Type	Private to public
Established	1899-1966
Status	Open
School district	Dade County Public Schools
Principal	Shelley F. Stroleny
Grades	6th-8th
Campus	Suburban
Area	6 acres
Color(s)	Orange and Green
Mascot	Hornet

George Washington Senior High School is located in Coral Gables, Florida, and is under the supervision of the Dade County Public Schools. It opened in 1899 as a black school, for black students residing in Dade County, although it traces its beginning to an earlier private school for black children, informally known as "The Little Schoolhouse," which opened in 1899 as the private Dade Training School.

When the school first opened, it served students from K-12. Because this school then belonged to the black community, its colors were borrowed from Florida A&M University: orange and green. Its mascot is the Hornet.

After Florida schools desegregated during the 1966-1967 school year (with the class of 1966 being the last class to graduate from Carver), Carver became a seventh-grade center. Seniors, juniors and sophomores were forced to attend Coral Gables Senior High. Most of those students called the school Carver Gables.

Some residents thought that the school was in Miami's Coconut Grove neighborhood, but it is actually located in Coral Gables because Brooker Street is the line that separates the two. Therefore, when the school converted to a seventh-grade center, the former high school students (i.e., sophomores, juniors, and seniors) were transferred to Coral Gables Senior High to complete high school. It later became a junior high school.

The school is named for George Washington Carver.

During the High School Days of Carver, football teams used to play other high schools, including Miami Northwestern High School, Booker T. Washington Senior High of Dade County, North Dade Junior/ Senior High School, Arthur and Polly Mays Senior High, George S. Middleton High of Tampa, Howard Blake High of Tampa, Dillard High, Attucks High of Broward County, and Gilbert High of Jacksonville, Gifford High of Vero Beach.

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