A two-room school house with a "low" room for 1st thru 8th grades and "high" room 9th and 10th grades.

Note the windmill, central chimney (wonder if it had a furnace), lightning rods, school bell, door to basement, dirt driveway and what appears to be recent erosion leveling.  Anyone know who owned the farmstead in the background

Low room group photo: 1941/42:
Back row (L-R): girl, boy, boy, Lowell Johnson, girl, girl, girl, girl, boy
Middle row (L-R): girl, boy, girl, girl, Dwight Johnson, girl, boy, boy, boy
Front row (L-R): girl, girl, girl boy, boy, Stanley Johnson, girl, girl, boy
 

Nebraska required passing a battery of examinations to complete 8th grade.  Usually one or two subject exams were taken in 7th grade (i.e., Reading, Mental Mathematics) and the remainder were taken in the 8th grade.  The exams were typically held in the county seat.

Fish Creek Consolidated School. It was about 2 miles east and about that far north of Scotia. It was a two-room school house with what they called a low and a high room. The high room must have been just 9th and 10th grade--kind of unusual to go past 8th. I will for now send only the school pic (a good one) and one of a low room. I have my mom's grad pics and will try to see if I can possibly ID more before sending them. It may take me a while as I am mostly working on genealogy for the other side of my family. AND even though I ran onto the album recently, I am not sure where I stuck it. My focus the next time I go back will be genealogy research in about half a dozen towns in Nebraska to fill in my dad's family genealogy. I will not be going back this summer I am afraid and I really don't have anyone in the vicinity with the interest or suitable for whatever reason to work on this for me in Greeley. I will see if my sisters can ask relatives if they are going to be seeing them.

Submitted by Barbara Whitson