Salisbury Middle

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Updated : 2008-04-07

Did you know that Salisbury Middle School used to be Salisbury High School?

Salisbury Middle recently held a historic tribute to the former students of Salisbury High.

Our present school building was an all Black high school from 1954 until 1974. Many graduates of Salisbury High school have gone on to make significant contributions to the Salisbury community and the state of Maryland.

Time line:

The first high school in Wicomico County was opened in 1872
The first Black high school was opened in 1915 and was called the Colored Industrial High School. It was located in the Feldman warehouse on Commerce St. in downtown Salisbury. There were 9 students in the first graduation class.
The Black high school moved in 1930 from downtown Salisbury to a building on Lake Street. The name of the black high school changed from the Colored industrial High School to Salisbury High School at that time. The building that they were in is now Chipman Elementary.
In 1954 a new black high school was opened on Morris Street. It was still called Salisbury High School. (Our school!)
In 1974, because of desegregation (blacks and whites would now attend school together), Salisbury High School was turned into the Wicomico County Vocational/Technical Center. All the students who formerly went to Salisbury High were then spread among all the other Wicomico County high schools.
In 1999 the Wicomico Vo-Tech center was renovated and added on to and became Salisbury Middle school.

Did you know?

Charles H. Chipman served as principal of Salisbury High School for 46 years from 1915 until his retirement in 1961. Chipman Elementary is named for him.
Salisbury High School graduate Parlett Moore became a high school principal in Cambridge, and then later served as president of Coppin State College in Maryland.
The Family and Consumer Science classes at Salisbury High School prepared all the school lunches for the students because there was no cafeteria.
The floor in our gym is the same one that was built with the original building in 1950. That makes our gym floor 56 years old!
Allen Brown, a graduate of Salisbury High School, is now the assistant superintendent of the Wicomico County public schools.

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