The remarkable history of Mt Hall and Valley View schools
If you were a student in Boundary County in the first half of the 1900s, this is what your educational landscape looked like: Bonners Ferry had Bonners Ferry High School, a centralized school for high-school age students from all over the county. Northside School and Southside School were also in Bonners Ferry, housing students through the first eight grades of their education.
Outside of Bonners Ferry, in the more rural areas of the county, were the country schools. These schools were scattered all over the county. Every community area of the county had one. Picture in your mind the pioneer-style “one room” country schoolhouse, and you won’t be far off in imagining what Boundary County’s rural community schools looked like.
Although some of the community rural schools sprung up and later faded with population shifts around the county, by midcentury of the 1900s these were the rural community “one room” schools in Boundary County:
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