The Blanche K. Bruce School was an all-black school and community center during the Jim Crow era in the United States.

[2] The Bruce School building was designed by architect William M. Poindexter in Renaissance Revival style of red brick with stone and pressed metal trim, with two floors of four rooms each.

In 1927, a Colonial Revival style eight-room annex was constructed, designed by architect Albert L.

The Bruce School building became the charter Caesar Chavez Prep Middle School in 2009, named for the Mexican-American labor organizer Cesar Chavez.

[5] The building was designated a D.C. historic site on November 20, 2014, and added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 31, 2015.