The two school buildings, located on the original property at the corner of Martin Luther King Drive and Alexandria Street, were the first African-American related structures in southwestern Louisiana to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places, on March 1, 1996.

[1] Teacher preparation was an important goal of the Beauregard Parish Training School from its founding until the mid-1930s when the program was discontinued.

Subsequently, students were required to attend one or two years at a normal school in order to obtain a teaching certificate.

The school curriculum offered and its teachers were highly valued by the black citizens of Beauregard Parish.

The entrance, which features sidelights, is located at the rear of a small vestibule whose door-less opening is distinguished by a bracketed cornice.

The concept of the parish training school created in 1911 was made possible through the efforts of four philanthropic foundations interested in the education of African-American youth.

A third goal was to provide industrial and manual training for African-American children,"..laying particular emphasis upon subject pertaining to home and farm."

Beauregard Parish met the first requirement when the Longbell Lumber Company conveyed a tract of land to the School Board on February 6, 1917.

This person's primary tasks were to assist teachers in writing lesson plans and to create support for black schools.

A large two-story structure served as a high school while a smaller one-story building held the elementary level classes.

[2] Schools for African-American students had existed in the Beauregard Parish towns of Merryville, Ludington, Bon Ami, Carson, Longville, Center Hill, Bancroft and DeRidder at least as early as the 1917-1918 term.

This amount underwrote the construction of twin, one-story, hollow tile buildings with stuccoed exterior surfaces.

[1] Unveiling of a Plaque designating the Beauregard Parish Training School as a Historical Landmark occurred November 16, 2001.