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  1. Paul Laurence Dunbar is the first high school to serve African-Americans in the United States. Dunbar High School defied the odds and in the process changed America. In the first half of the twentieth century, Washington D.Cs Dunbar High was an academically elite public school, despite being racially segregated by law and existing at the ...

  2. Paul Laurence Dunbar High School is a historically black public secondary school located in Washington, D.C. The school was America's first public high school for black students. The school is located in the Truxton Circle neighborhood of Northwest Washington, two blocks from the intersection of New Jersey and New York avenues.

  3. Dunbar High School, high school in Washington, D.C., that was the first Black public high school in the United States. Since it opened in 1870, it has educated many notable figures, including surgeon Charles Richard Drew, jurist William Henry Hastie, Jr., and writer Jean Toomer. Its faculty has.

  4. Jul 29, 2013 · The nation's first black public high school, Paul Laurence Dunbar High, opened its doors in Washington, D.C., in 1870. But more than 140 years later, Dunbar — like many urban...

  5. Demolished. Mount Vernon Square. Northwest. Snowden Ashford. Founded in 1870 as the Preparatory High School for Colored Youth in the basement of the 15th Street Presbyterian Church, the school became the country's first public high school for African Americans.

  6. Sep 1, 2023 · View Full Report Card. Dunbar Senior High School is a public school located in WASHINGTON, DC. It has 868 students in grades 9-12 with a student-teacher ratio of 14 to 1. According to state test scores, 1% of students are at least proficient in math and 19% in reading.

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  8. Dunbar High School is the first public high school for black children in the United States and the first public high school in Washington, D.C. The school was founded in 1870, as the Preparatory High School for colored youth; and was also the first public high school in Washington, D.C.

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