George Washington Carver School

George Washington Carver Junior 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.