J.E.J Moore Middle School

JEJ Moore Middle School is a middle school located in Prince George County, Virginia.
History
Dr. John Edward Jeffries Moore was born in Richmond, Virginia on April 9, 1876. He attended Richmond High and Normal School where he was an honor graduate and valedictorian. After graduating from high school he attended Rochester College in Rochester, New York and Columbia University in New York, New York. Dr. Moore authored “Colored America Refined” that was published in 1903. He was a newspaper columnist for ten years, and then he taught school in King William County for seven years.
Dr. Moore became principal of the Disputanta Training School for blacks in Disputanta in 1931. He served Prince George County for 22 years, and retired in 1953.
In 1955 when a new high school for blacks was built on Route 156 just east of Route 460, to replace the Disputanta Training school it was named for Dr. Moore. After the end of Massive Resistance, the Prince George County public schools were racially integrated and in 1964 and both black and white students began attending Prince George High School. J.E.J. Moore, became a Junior High School, and four additional classrooms were added to the north end of the school in 1969. A new standing seam metal roof was installed in the mid 1990s to replace the original flat roof, and the decision was made by the School Board to build a new school to replace the forty-two year old facility that was in need of renovation.
In 1998 the current J.E.J. Moore Middle School was built on Route 156 just west of Route 460, about a mile south of the old facility, and the students and staff moved in January 1999. The old J.E.J. Moore school was closed, renovated, and re-opened as the Prince George Education Center in 2000.

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