 Thus, for most of Goodloe's tenure, the school was the only place in the state for black students to receive an education past the sixth-grade level.The first black high school in the state was started in Cambridge in 1917, followed by one in Baltimore, and then Annapolis.During the first year, the black elementary school at the corner of 11th Street and Normal School Road, just east of the old town of Bowie, was placed under the direction of the Normal School, thus giving teachers-in-training a model school for practice with 86 students.