Rural School History
Elk Creek - Year?
Photo courtesy Edith Wayland. Black Jack / Shady Grove school 8th grade graduation about 1915.
Back from left: Teacher Orla Harral (Shorty), Florence Sippy, Melvin Jones.
Front row from left: Ronald Pritchett, Goldie Norifalise, Pearl Butts, Rob Wade.
The following school districts consolidated to Cabool R-IV School District
Elk Creek
Eunice
Freely Give
Gravel Point
Nagle
Oak Grove
Pea Ridge
Pine Flat
Mt. Pisgah
Pleasant Grove
Sargent
Shady Grove
Simmons
Solo
Stultz
Tyrone
Union
Ozark
Orchard View
In Texas County, the last school was dissolved in a reorganization vote in 1971.
Some students went to other consolidated schools in the area such as Houston depending on where the boundaries of the districts were drawn.
Oak Grove Singing School - Feb. 1911