I.M. Terrell High School
| I.M. Terrell High School | |
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Site of former I.M. Terrell High School as of 2013.
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1411 I.M. Terrell Circle S. Fort Worth, Texas 76102 United States |
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| Coordinates | 32°44′56.54″N 97°18′52.50″W / 32.7490389°N 97.3145833°WCoordinates: 32°44′56.54″N 97°18′52.50″W / 32.7490389°N 97.3145833°W |
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| School type | High school (Public) |
| Established | 1882 |
| Status | Closed |
| Closed | 1973 |
| School district | Fort Worth Independent School District |
| Superintendent | Alexander Hogg (1882) I.M. Terrell (1890) |
| Principal | I.M. Terrell (1910-1915) |
| Faculty | 26 (1940s) |
| Grades | 9-11 (1940s) |
| Enrollment | 900 (1940s) |
| Athletics conference | Prairie View Interscholastic League |
| Communities served | Fort Worth; also Arlington, Bedford, Benbrook, Burleson, Roanoke, Weatherford |
 I.M. Terrell High School at its previous location in 1921. |
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I.M Terrell High School was a secondary school located in Fort Worth, Texas. The school opened in 1882 as the city's first black school, during the era of formal racial segregation in the United States. The high school closed in 1973, although the building reopened as an elementary school in 1998.
In 1882, Isaiah Milligan Terrell (1859–1931) became the head of East Ninth Street Colored School, the first free public school for African Americans in Fort Worth. Terrell became Principal and Superintendent of Colored Schools in 1890. In 1906, the school moved to a location at East Twelfth and Steadman Streets, and was renamed North Side Colored School No. 11. A new school building opened in 1910, with Terrell as principal. In 1915, Terrell left the school to become an administrator at Prairie View State Normal and Industrial College (now Prairie View A&M University). The school was renamed I.M Terrell High School in 1921, in honor of the former principal.
In 1938, the school moved to an existing structure (a former white elementary school) at 1411 East Eighteenth Street in the Baptist Hill neighborhood. The building was expanded as part of a Works Progress Administration project. The school's former location became an elementary and junior high school.
In 1940, the Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools for Negroes (ACSSN) selected I.M. Terrell High School to participate as an experimental site in the Secondary School Study (also known as the Black High School Study). The study, funded by the General Education Board, sought to include African American teachers in the development of progressive education. According to the study, by the 1940s the school had 26 faculty members serving 900 students in grades 9 through 11.
In addition to serving students in Fort Worth, the school drew students from areas outside the city, including Arlington, Bedford, Benbrook, Burleson, Roanoke, and Weatherford, where African American children could not attend school.
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