Phenix High School
Coordinates: 37°1′19.8″N 76°20′7.4″W / 37.022167°N 76.335389°W Phenix High School was a school for African Americans. It was created by the Hampton Institute, now Hampton University, as a normal school near the town of Hampton and Fort Monroe in Elizabeth City County, Virginia in 1931.
Phenix High School was first established as the George P. Phenix Training School in 1931. The school was named for Dr. George Perly Phenix (1864–1930), a native of Maine, who was Hampton Institute's fourth principal, and subsequently the first to hold the title of president. It was Phenix who lobbied the Virginia State Board of Education to build a modern facility for the Negro youth in the community. A popular administrator, Dr. Phenix died suddenly in a drowning accident a few months before the new school he had championed opened.
The school was built by Hampton Institute to serve as normal school, a training ground for the university students who were learning to become teachers. The single, three story building originally included both a seven-year grammar school and a four-year high school. Anyone seeking a degree in education had to serve as a student teacher at Phenix - either at the high school or at the grammar school located at another end of the building. Black parents paid a small fee so their children could attend the school.
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