Pearson School

Pearson School

The first Pearson School was established around 1874; a second school was built across the road and replaced the first in 1898.

The Pearson School was the first school for African American children built in Burke around 1874. A second replacement school was built in 1898 on Burke Lake Road. By 1927, the school had 32 students, grades 1-6. From 1929 until 1946, the school had grades 1-7. The school was closed permanently at the end of the school year in 1946. The African American students were bused to the Rosenwald School in the Town of Fairfax and later Eleven Oaks.

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John “Jack” Pearson sold property for the first school and donated the land for the second school.

Courtesy of FCPS