Individual portraits of each student in one of the last graduating high school classes. In 1931, the school became Columbia Heights Elementary School and students were transferred to Atkins High School. Also known as Columbian Heights High School.

Source: Digitalnc - Forsyth County Public Library Photograph Collection, Malloy Jordan East Winston Heritage Center.

Columbia Heights (also known as Columbian Heights) Colored Grade School, began as a three-room building in Winston-Salem around 1905.

In 1913 it was enlarged, and in 1917 Columbia Heights Grade and High School became the second high school for Black students in Winston-Salem.

In 1922 and again in 1929, the booming school was renovated and expanded. Still it was too small, and in 1931 the high school students moved to the brand-new Atkins High School (so named for the principal of Columbia Heights, Simon Atkins).
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