# Cherokee Middle School

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**Cherokee Middle School** was located at the eastern limits of [Cherokee, Alabama](/source/Cherokee,_Alabama) on the north side of [County Road](/source/County_highway) 20. It served the children of western [Colbert County](/source/Colbert_County,_Alabama) for grades 5 through 8. The decline of population in the western portion of the county caused the school to close at the end of the 2006 – 2007 school year and the grades merged into [Cherokee High School](/source/Cherokee_High_School_(Alabama)) and Cherokee Elementary.[1]

## History

Cherokee Middle School was originally Cherokee High School and designated the [segregated](/source/Racial_segregation) school for [African American](/source/African_American) children. It was an original [Rosenwald School](/source/Rosenwald_School). At that time the segregated school for “[white](/source/Caucasian_race)” children was named [Cherokee Vocational High School](/source/Cherokee_High_School_(Alabama)).[2] After the original junior high school building (located on the Cherokee Vocation High School campus) burned in January 1971 Cherokee Middle School began handling grades 5 through 8. The original building was removed in the 1980s and now the oldest buildings on the campus were in built in the 1960s.

## See also

[The Rosenwald Schools Initiative](https://web.archive.org/web/20080802010445/http://www.rosenwaldschools.com/)

## References

1. [News Channel 19 Video](http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=769318633&channel=294434704)[dead link]

1. [Map of Rosenwald Schools - Eastern portion](http://www.rosenwaldplans.org/EastMap.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20070609215304/http://www.rosenwaldplans.org/EastMap.html) June 9, 2007 at the Wayback Machine

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