Northwest Junior High School [1]
Northwest Junior High was Charlotte’s first and only all-black junior high. Until it was started in 1954, grades 7-12 were considered high school. The school now occupies the old West Charlotte High School campus. It still operates today as Northwest School of the Arts, a 6-12 arts magnet school.
![Northwest Junior High in the early 1950s](https://www.cmstory.org/sites/default/files/images/011-001.jpg)
![The Northwest Junior High auditorium The Northwest Junior High auditorium](https://www.cmstory.org/sites/default/files/images/011-002.jpg)
An African American Album: The Black Experience in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, vol. 2. Charlotte, NC. Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, 1998.