Meadows Valley School District Begins…1883 The Meadows District No. 9 was organized in 1883. The first school was located in Meadows and was taught out of one room cabin by Goose Creek. The teacher was Miss Florence Ellen Cook, and later Mrs. W.M. Campbell. The first school built was an old log cabin and was located by the old Bolin Abshires place. In 1891 a modern day school was built and was called Middle District with grades first through eighth. The Middle District Organized in 1889 The Middle District was organized in 1889 and was located by the Branstetter Ranch; Miss Shepard was the teacher. The salary for teachers in a one-room school like the Middle District with thirty to forty pupils of all ages and all grades was about forty dollars a month. The school was a fun place to go with ice cream socials, box suppers, spelling bees, and literary societies. In 1890 a school was formed north of Round Valley, near the Lawrence Merrit home.  Jack Wisdom, Miss Olive Carrauthers and Mrs. C.B. Irwin were all teachers at the school at different times. In 1925, the school was combined with the Middle District.
	Three Schools…Middle District, Meadows and New Meadows…1924 In 1911 a four-room brick building was built in Meadows and was called Meadows School. That same year a school was built in New Meadows and was called Beaumont; both schools were ready for use in January 1912. At one time there were three schools in the valley.  They were the Middle District, Meadows, and New Meadows and they all had first through eighth grades.  In 1924, with improved roads and inexpensive automobiles, it was possible to establish Meadows Valley High School. In 1924 the high school district in Meadows Valley was bonded on March twenty-first. Middle District was the high school for a few years, but in 1927 Beaumont became the high school. In the spring of 1928, seven seniors graduated from Meadows Valley High School, the first senior class to graduate. The school year of 1929-30 saw a big change in the grade school with three teachers for eight grades, instead of two.1929 did not have a graduating class, as it was the year of the Great Depression. After 1929, there was a graduating class every year. In 1936 Meadows Valley High School had a record fifteen students graduate.   The Depression Years The Depression years were hard, with jobs and money hard to come by and farm prices dropping. The Meadows Valley Bank took the worst of the decline in money and folded up unexpectedly after a few hard years. The school newspaper of this day did not show the gloom and doom. The first issue of Student Static, October 30, 1931, announced plans for Professor Pepp, a three-act comedy, to be presented in November. Improvements for the Meadows School were noted in paper to be a clock and bell combination to make class bells automatic and a library cabinet for the assembly room. Some events include: a pep rally that would snake through town, new football equipment, the Ladies club gave a reception for teachers, freshman studied manners, and the juniors entertained the seniors with a marshmallow toast on Goose Creek. The paper also had several ads and enrollment in school was at its greatest with 43 students. The classes offered through the years changed. In1905: Arithmetic, Geography, Physiology, Spelling, and History were the basic curriculum classes offered.  In 1924, with Meadows Valley High School established, the district was able to offer more classes. They were Algebra, Latin, Geometry, and Domestic Science.  History and French were also offered through the years. Sports started to become more popular in public schools. Football and basketball were the sports that were played and these games drew townspeople to the school, as did the school plays.
	Meadows Valley School…1935             In 1935, Meadows Valley School had been around for twelve years and had fifty students enrolled. There were three teachers and it had been a distinguished school district for five years. The high school emblem for Meadows Valley High School was established during the 1930s. The student body selected a name and after some discussion decided on the Mountaineers for sports and Old Granite Mountain as its emblem.   Meadows Valley High School…1939 It had been nearly one hundred and nineteen years since the log cabin was built. By 1938 the tenth class of seniors graduated from M.V.H.S.  Since M.V.H.S. was growing, New Meadows built a new high school in 1939 and it is located just outside of New Meadows. The Meadows School became the middle school and Beaumont became the grade school. In 1969 a new High School was built further into New Meadows and became a K-12 school. The other schools were shut down and sold. Middle District is no longer standing, Meadows School became a Veterinarian Clinic, Beaumont is an apartment complex, and the school just outside of New Meadows is a church.   Present Meadows Valley School was built in 1968 We are still in the school built in 1968 with about 140 students K-12.

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