Today, we have an enrollment of 202 students and 10 teachers devoting full time to this work. Although laboring under great handicaps, nevertheless, because of superior trained teachers, Lincoln High School has achieved high honors in competition with other schools in Athletics, Literary and Declamatory Contests and other activities. Lincoln's graduates have been able to enter the various outstanding colleges of the country and make excellent records in scholarship and leadership. Now, with this most modern and well equipped edifice, we hope to turn out boys and girls well prepared to do the work of the world and the practical things of life. The large assembly room, where the opening exercises will be held, will seat 200 people.
Plans call for the post-war addition of an auditorium and gymnasium.
When the third floor and auditorium have been added, the old red building will be entirely eliminated, as space will be inadequate to take care of the entire colored school population. Classes are being conducted this week in the new structure, which is considered one of the finest color educational institutions in the state. There are 200 students in the six-year high school being trained by ten teachers under the supervision of Principal Rainbow. The first six grade are still being taught in the old adjoining red building having 174 pupils, while 90 are enrolled in elementary classes at Dunbar school, Triadelphia. Beautification of the surrounding land was in charge of the Wheeling Landscape Commission.