I find it interesting how things evolve. From a one room house to our current Eldon School District, we've come far in the last century.
The first year of High School Education was 1907-08 with the School Superintendent being its sole teacher. By 1915 Eldon built a new High School and graduated it's first class with 17 seniors.
"A one-room log building located on what is now Mrs. Roxie Brown's property on South Grand Avenue became with the plotting of the town Eldon's first school house. In 1883 the Eldon School District bought the east half of block nine located on Ninth and Chestnut Streets and built a two-story frame building. A Mr. Gier taught the first term in this building. This building served the district until 1893, when it was deemed too small to house the school of the growing town. The district then bought the Eldon Academy Building which was located on block sixty on First and Pine Streets the present location of the grade school building. This was a two-story, four-room building and served the district until 1904 when eight rooms of the present grade building were erected.
In the fall of 1907 T. E. Vaughan was employed as superintendent of Eldon schools. In that year he completed plans for a graded system that had been begun by a predecessor, and he also laid the foundation for the Eldon High School. At the beginning of the school year 1907-8 the more advanced students were given credit for one year of high school work on the basis of subjects previously pursued. The enrollment of this class was twenty. Superintendent Vaughan was the only instructor in the high school that year. The total school enrollment for 1907-8 was approximately 400. In the following year 1908-9, the enrollment in the high school had reached forty, and Miss Grace Scott became Mr. Vaughan's assistant."
In the spring of 1910 Eldon High School graduated its first class
"In 1914 the district bought adjoining lots and enlarged the campus to 400 feet by 832 feet. The present high school building was begun in the same year and completed in the spring of 1915. It will always remain a monument to Mr. Vaughan's excellent and faithful service to Eldon schools and community."
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