Edwin M. Stanton School, Historic educational institution in Jacksonville, Florida.

Edwin M. Stanton School is a three-story brick building with classical architectural details located on West Ashley Street in Jacksonville. The structure displays the solid construction and formal design typical of early 20th-century institutional buildings in Florida.

After the Civil War, African Americans in Jacksonville formed the Education Society and in 1868 bought land for the Florida Institute, the state's first school for Black students, built with help from the Freedmen's Bureau and named for Lincoln's second Secretary of War, Edwin McMasters Stanton. Fire destroyed the first wooden building in 1882 and its successor on May 3, 1901. The present fireproof building, at Ashley, Broad, Beaver and Clay Streets, was completed in 1917 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

The school honours Edwin McMasters Stanton, Abraham Lincoln's second Secretary of War, chosen for his support of free schooling for Black children. Its mascots carry the memory of two fires: the Blue Devil for sports and the Phoenix, adopted after the 1882 and 1901 blazes, as the school's own symbol.

The 1917 brick building stands at the corner of Ashley, Broad, Beaver and Clay Streets; the school itself moved to 13th Street in 1953. The old building then served as a junior high, and from August 1954 as Stanton Vocational High School, with evening classes for adults and veterans. It is listed on the National Register, not an active campus.

The building received recognition on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 with registration number NRIS 83001446, confirming its nationally acknowledged historical importance. This designation highlights how early 20th-century school architecture in Jacksonville achieved national attention.