In 1948, the new Mineral Springs High School building was dedicated at the corner of Ogburn Road and Motor Road on the city's northwest side. Students had been attending class in the building since early October. At the dedication, speakers noted that it was the first new county school building to be opened since early in the Great Depression and celebrated the large state-of-the-art auditorium and gymnasium facilities. In the 1980s, Mineral Springs became a middle school, part of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools' broad transition to the middle school model that had been piloted at Wiley Middle School during the prior decade. Today, the building is home to the Mineral Springs Visual and Performing Arts Magnet Middle School. Clyde R. Hoey, former NC governor and sitting United States Senator (pictured on the left in the final photo below), spoke optimistically that a new era of school construction was beginning.

**A note on Senator Hoey: a staunch and vocal segregationist from Shelby, NC, in recent years, his name has been removed from several buildings around the state (at Western Carolina University, North Carolina Central University, and Appalachian State University)].