Constructed in 1915 at the request of local parishioners of Mount Zion Baptist Church in Charles City County, the Mica School provided education for Black children during 20th-century segregation in Virginia’s public school system until it closed in 1951. Records show that the school received Rosenwald funds, even though it was built before the start of the official dispersal of program funds in 1917. The Mica School offered classes taught by a single teacher and accommodated as many as 50 students in multiple grade levels at a time. Community residents managed the Mica School’s operations, including the maintenance and repair of the building and outhouses as well as raising funds for supplies and books.  Mica School exhibits multiple characteristics of buildings constructed for African American education in Charles City County from the late-19th to the mid-20th century and is one of only three surviving examples of a Black community school in the county.