The first primary school for Negro students was erected at 12th Avenue and Massachusetts the same year the city’s school board made the decision to segregate its public schools. The primary school had several locations on the East and West side of Gary that were known as, “Negro Primary” school buildings. The 15th Avenue and Virginia Street schools enrolled Negro, Primary and Secondary students. It had overcrowded and substandard facilities. There was another school for Negroes at 14th and Connecticut; the school board moved the two schools to Friedrich Froebel School at 15th and Madison. To meet the demands of a growing Negro population another primary Negro school was open in 1915 at 21st Avenue and Adams. Children were then transferred from Froebel to the Adams Street location.