- Attended local public schools in Tuskegee
- Top of her class
- Her teachers encouraged Rosa to attend the Tuskegee Institute High School (Now Tuskegee University)
Post Secondary
- Received a scholarship to attend the Tuskegee Institute High School
- Earned a 99.43 average grade
- She studied science to train as a nurse,
- she left after she married Raymond Parks at age 16 in 1932
>Her education played a major role in forming many her perspectives of racial injustice throughout her lifetime