Eleanor Roosevelt School

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Eleanor Roosevelt School was a historic Black community school in Warm Springs, Georgia, located at 350 Parham Street near Leverette Hill Road. It is also known as the Eleanor Roosevelt Vocational School for Colored Youth, Warm Springs Negro School, and the Eleanor Roosevelt Rosenwald School.

Built in 1936 with funds from the Julius Rosenwald Fund, it was designed in the Colonial Revival style by architects Fletcher B. Dresslar and Samuel L. Smith. It was the 5358th Rosenwald School and the last one, created in honor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his vision for education.

The school opened on March 18, 1937, and began as a five-teacher school for rural Black children. It served grades 1 through 8 through the mid-1960s, then only elementary grades until it closed in 1972 with racial integration.

Roosevelt had strong ties to Georgia due to his polio treatment in Warm Springs and helped establish the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation (now the Roosevelt Warm Springs Rehabilitation Center).

In 1940, the Eleanor Roosevelt School was honored with two dioramas at the American Negro Exposition in Chicago.

After closing, the building housed an adult education center (1972–1975) and a day care center (1975–1977). It was sold to a private owner in 1977.

In 2010, the school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its importance to African-American education and its Rosenwald School architecture.