Littlefield High School is a former high school in
Lumberton,
North Carolina
North Carolina ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, South Carolina to the south, Georgia (U.S. stat ...
, in the
Public Schools of Robeson County district. It opened in 1955; in 1991 it became Littlefield Middle School.
History
Littlefield High School opened in 1955 as a four-year high school with 273 students from Allenton School, Barker Ten Mile School, and Smith's School. It was named for B. E. Littlefield, then Superintendent of Robeson County Schools, and located on 17.7 acres on
North Carolina Highway 41
North Carolina Highway 41 (NC 41) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The highway travels in a north–south orientation between the South Carolina state line to Lumberton, then switches to an east&nda ...
east of Lumberton.
[K. Blake Tyner, ''Robeson County in Vintage Postcards'', Postcard history series, Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia, ]
p. 82
The building was enlarged in 1972 and an extension added in 1976 to house 7th- and 8th-grade students from Allenton and Smith's Schools; the school became Littlefield Junior-Senior High School.
[History]
Littlefield Middle School, Public Schools of Robeson County, retrieved September 5, 2020.
In spring 1991 the district consolidated its high schools and the school became Littlefield Middle School;
[ 9th-grade students moved to Lumberton Junior High School and 10th- to 12th-grade students to Lumberton Senior High School. Since fall 1991, it has housed grades 4 through 8.][
]
Athletics
Littlefield's sports teams were the Hornets. In 1965 they won the Region 2, Class A championship in football; there was no state championship at the time."Collins, longtime coach, dies"
''The Robesonian'', July 28, 2015.
References
External links
Littlefield High School alumni page
Defunct schools in North Carolina
Educational institutions established in 1955
Educational institutions disestablished in 1991
Defunct high schools in the United States
Schools in Robeson County, North Carolina
{{NorthCarolina-school-stub