Oak Ridge School in New Madrid abt 1928 County

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• The little girl, second from the left in the dark coat is my mother, Irene Alma Willoughby. Her brother, Eugene Lee Willoughby is also in the picture. I don't know which boy he is. Their parents were Ardell Hobson and Edna Mae (Gamble) Willoughby. I have the picture here in Florida and I will be seeing my mother in June and I will take it with me to have her identify her brother. She will be 81 this year and she seems to think the picture was taken maybe 1928 or 1929. Mom said the teachers name was Miss Patterson. I found a Gertrude Patterson, age 21 living as a boarder with the Robert M. Stevenson family in the Como Township in 1930. I don't know if Gertrude was her teacher or not.
  
  I am looking for information about the Oak Ridge School in New Madrid County. My mother, Irene A.Willoughby attended the school about 1928 or 1929 when she was 5 or 6 years old. I have a picture of the class, well most of the class, because the picture has been torn. Mom remembers the teacher's name was Miss Patterson. She remembers it being a one room school and from the background, it looks like the building was made of brick. Does the building still exist and what city was the school located?
  
  After attending Oak Ridge for a couple of years, she went to another school that she thought was in Riscoe. She was living in Como with her grandparents, Richard 'Dick' and Mattie Gamble at the time and rode the school bus. She said she thought it was a grade school and high school. Would anyone know the name of this school, where it was located and if the building still exists?
  
  Thanks for any help you can provide.
  Pat