Land was acquired April 22, 1892, to build Melrose School, and the first classes were held some time that year.
The first records were in 1895-96 and they show Melrose had one teacher, Merrick Smith, and two board members, G. W. Bigham, clerk, and L. C. Taylor, treasurer. The census for that year showed that in the school district there were fifty-nine people eligible to go to school, their ages ra…