Dupuy Elementary School

Chesterfield County opened a school here for African American students in Jan. 1962, more than seven years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board decision. After several Black students applied to attend all-White schools but were assigned to Dupuy by the state Pupil Placement Board—which frequently acted to preserve segregation—the families sued in federal court with the assistance of the Virginia NAACP. McLeod v. Chesterfield led to the county’s first enrollment by Black students in a previously all-White school in Nov. 1962. Chesterfield adopted a “freedom of choice” plan in 1966 and fully desegregated in 1970. Dupuy became an annex to Ettrick Elementary and was demolished in 2020.

Department of Historic Resources, 2025