Carver High School (Tupelo, Mississippi)

Carver High School was a public secondary school in Tupelo, Mississippi, United States.

As with many black schools in Mississippi and throughout the South, it was called a training school in part because it was considered helpful in promoting education for blacks and in part due to local school boards preference not to call them high schools.

[2] All ninth grade students, regardless of race, were placed at Carver.

[3] Carver enjoyed an arrangement with Tupelo High School wherein both teams shared a common football field, Robins Field, from 1921 until integration.

Tupelo played on Friday nights and Carver on Saturdays.