Howard High School (Florida)

The building burned down in 1887, and a new school was built the next year at the corner of Adams and Bay, which is now Northwest Second Street and Northwest Seventh Avenue, at a cost of $1600.

The school was named after Union Army General Oliver Otis Howard, who was the first and only director of the Freedmen's Bureau.

In 1914 a two-story, twenty room building was constructed at a cost of $7,000.

For years, books were provided after students were finished with them at the white schools.

In 1965, some students from Howard began attending all-white Ocala High School (now Forest under a choice plan.