 The Luray Avenue building re-opened in the fall of 1959 with a significantly reduced white student population and 22 black students.Also in the fall of 1959 (after a hurried construction process) John S. Mosby Academy (grades 1-12), one of Virginia's several segregation academies opened, as well as public Criser High School, serving the black high school student population of Warren and Rappahannock counties (Criser was an effort to provide "separate but equal", segregated facilities).By the mid-1960s there were enough (black and white) students at WCHS to again field viable athletic teams.