Many Washington County schools were loosely organized in the 1850s. The district school system was started in 1850. A re-organization in 1864 set up the county school system that existed for about 90 years. The 76th school district was formed in 1902. By 1909, two districts had already closed their schools and were busing their students to schools in Hastings. The consolidation of rural schools continued until the county system was discontinued in the 1950s.
WCHS is looking for dates and other facts about each of the schools that existed in the county. We hope to add the names of teachers and fill out the histories on each of the buildings. If you have information or stories about any of the schools, please contact us.
This page is dedicated to the memory of Edward E. Bloomquist (1882-1935), a county school superintendent for 17 years as well as the first president of the Washington County Historical Society.
- Joint District No. 1 – Tin Box School; Sunnyside School
- District No. 1 – Goose Lake School
- District No. 2 – Hay Lake School
- District No. 3 – Marine School
- District No. 4 – Arcola School
- District No. 5 – Kilty School; County Home School
- District No. 6 – Lyman School
- District No. 7 – Rutherford School; Boutwell School
- District No. 8 – Jackman School
- District No. 9 – Central School, Stillwater
- District No. 9 – Greeley School, Stillwater
- District No. 9 – Lincoln School, Stillwater
- District No. 9 – Nelson School, Stillwater
- District No. 9 – Schulenburg School, Stillwater
- District No. 9 – Stillwater High School, Stillwater
- District No. 9 – Washington School, Stillwater
- Special District No. 9 – City of Stillwater schools, including Greeley, Lincoln, Central, Schulenberg, etc.
- District No. 10 – Greeder School
- District No. 11 – Pfiffner School; Victoria Station School
- District No. 12 – Eder School; Collopy School
- District No. 13 – Eberle School; North School
- District No. 14 – Oak Park School
- District No. 15 – South Stillwater (Bayport) School
- District No. 16 – Stillwater Junction School
- District No. 17 – Lake Elmo School
- District No. 18 – [merged with Dist. 20 in 1867]
- District No. 19 – McKean School
- District No. 20 – Rentz School
- District No. 21 – Lakeland School
- District No. 22 – Afton-Lakeland School
- District No. 23 – Eastwood School; Haskell School
- District No. 24 – Afton School
- District No. 25 – Middleton School
- District No. 26 – Fish Lake School
- District No. 27 – Woodbury School; Gille School
- District No. 28 – Schilling School
- District No. 29 – Sunnyhill School; Union School
- District No. 30 – Langdon School
- District No. 31 – Cottage Grove School
- District No. 32 – Nessel School
- District No. 33 – Lamb School; Fullerton School
- District No. 34 – Point Douglas School; Valley School
- District No. 35 – Basswood Grove School
- District No. 36 – Newport School
- District No. 37 – Marty School; Oakdale School
- District No. 38 – Bone Lake School; Bonny Lake School
- District No. 39 – Valley Creek School; Bolles School
- District No. 40 – Lynch School
- District No. 41 – Hudson Road School
- District No. 42 – [merged with Dist. 46 in 1862]
- District No. 43 – Red Rock School
- District No. 44 – Hugo School
- District No. 45 – Eden Grove School; Shingledecker School
- District No. 46 – Ellmann School; Landes School
- District No. 47 – Feely School
- District No. 48 – Grey Cloud School
- District No. 49 – Concord Hill School; Dibble School; Mark Wright School
- District No. 50 – Long Lake School
- District No. 51 – Johnson School; Walker School
- District No. 52 – Curtis School; Jarchow School
- District No. 53 – Corners School; Fountain Spring School; Munger School
- District No. 54 – Dellwood School
- District No. 55 – Twin Lakes School
- District No. 56 – Forest Lake School
- District No. 57 – Copas School; Vasa School
- District No. 58 – Dalrymple School; Harris School
- District No. 59 – North Star School; John Wright School
- District No. 60 – Lohman School
- District No. 61 – Big Lake School
- District No. 62 – Castle School
- District No. 63 – Kinyon School; Lueck School
- District No. 64 – Malone School
- District No. 65 – Pennington School
- District No. 66 – Swede Hill School
- District No. 67 – Alm School
- District No. 68 – Newport School; Red Rock School
- District No. 69 – Mahtomedi School
- District No. 70 – Wilcox School
- District No. 71 – Stromberg School
- District No. 72 – Garen South School
- District No. 73 – Hopkins School
- District No. 74 – Square Lake School
- District No. 75 – Tingley School; Oneka School
- District No. 76 – Welander School; Oak Grove School
- District No. 77 – Armstrong School; Eaglepoint School
- District No. 78 – Bloomquist Park School
- District No. 79 – Lathrop School; Garen North School
- Parochial Schools