Summerton High School, also known as Summerton Middle School, is a historic

school A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compuls ...

building located at

Summerton Summerton is a town in Clarendon County, South Carolina, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 814. Geography Summerton is in southwestern Clarendon County at (33.605145, -80.352159). Interstate 95 passes just south of the tow ...

Clarendon County, South Carolina Clarendon County is a county located below the fall line in the Coastal Plain region of U.S. state of South Carolina. As of 2020 census, its population was 31,144. Its county seat is Manning. This area was developed for lumber and mills, incl ...

. It was built in 1936, and is a one-story hip roofed, rectangular brick building. It has a central pavilion featuring a pedimented gable, supported by four cast stone plasters. Summerton High School is the only school still standing of the five schools in Clarendon County School District #22 that were associated with ''

Briggs v. Elliott ''Briggs v. Elliott'', 342 U.S. 350 (1952), on appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina, challenged school segregation in Summerton, South Carolina. It was the first of the five cases combined into ''Brown v ...

'', the South Carolina case which was one of the cases consolidated with ''

Brown v. Board of Education ''Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka'', 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregat ...

''. As of 2022 the building is used as administrative offices for Clarendon County School District #1. It was listed in the

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in 1994. In 2022 it and the former Scott’s Branch High School were designated part of ''Brown v. Board of Education'' National Historical Park.

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Anti-black racism in the United States School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina School buildings completed in 1936 Buildings and structures in Clarendon County, South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Clarendon County, South Carolina {{SouthCarolina-school-stub