Creek County Schools Updated: 06 Sep 2009
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Allen-Bowden School
-- location - on Highway 97 north of Sapulpa
established


Bellvue School
-- location - about one mile north of Highway 66 and Highway 48
established


Blue Bell School
-- location - 2 miles west of Highway 66 on Highway 33
established


Bowden School
-- location - 3 miles north of Sapulpa on Old Highway 66
established


Dripping Springs School
-- location - on Highway 33 between Sapulpa and Drumright
established
There is also a Dripping Spings church near Pine Hill area on Hwy 33.


Dunham School
-- location ___?___ established
The road passing to the east of the Self homestead was the dividing line between Dunham School District on the west and the Sunrise School District on the east. Dunham School District was consolidated into the Kellyville School System between 1940-1950. Self-9,10


Edna School
-- location - off Highway 16 about 2 miles south between Slick and Beggs
established


Forty-four (44) School
-- location ___?___ established
44 School joined the Dunham School District on the southwest. Self-10


Garfield School
-- location
completed in 1909. Students attended Woodlawn School in the afternoon from 1908 while Jefferson was being completed.
Sap2-18


Gypsy School
-- location - 8 miles south of Bristow on Highway 48, turn west (EW90RD) 4 miles to NS368RD)
established


Iron Post School
-- location - south of Bristow 7 miles on Highway 48, turn west (EW89RD) one mile. Town no longer there.
established


Jefferson School
-- location
completed in 1909. Students attended Woodlawn School in the afternoon from 1908 while Jefferson was being completed.
Sap2-18


Milfay School
-- location - 2 miles east of Stroud on Highway 66, go east one mile on (EW87RD), turn south on (NS362RD) one mile.
established


Mountain Creek School

-- located south of Kellyville  -- was only a 2 room school house but had big rooms. Grades 1-4 were in one room and 5-8 another room.
Ms. Baker was Superintendent/Teacher and Ms. Pauline Adams taught 1-4 grades. Later Mr. and Mrs. Jackson were the teachers.
Jack W. Romine (b 1926) remembers attending Mountain Creek School 1933-1934 with these classmates:

Ted, Woodward, Bill, Robert, Kenneth, and ____ (boy) Sams; Felix and William Harvey Ralston; Hobo Jones; Paul Howard Jones; Junior and Irene Banks; George and Fred Hathcock; Tommy, Calvin, Bill and Alma Little; Leo, Paul Howard, Dorothy York (their father was shot in the back and killed, while the children were attending school. Their mother died about week or so after he was killed. As the children were being taken to the Charles Page Home in Sand Springs they were allowed to stop at Mountain Creek School and say goodbye to their friends. They also had another younger sibling that did not attend school.); Jimmy Reynolds; Beluah Moore; Ernest and Dee Hopkins; Sonny Cotanner. Other surnames of children include Longs, Hurst, Burneys, Hides, Hawkins, Wests, Thomas, Bens, Cornelius, Barretts, and Millers.

Following children of Ed Romine and Molly Francis Conrad Romine attended Mountain Creek School at one time or the other.

 Jack W., Opal, Homer [Bud], Floyd, Clyde, Nora and OrabellRomine

 


Olive School
-- location - On Highway 33 toward Drumright
established




Picket Prairie School

-- located ca 3 miles E of old homeplace (Ed Romine's ca1935) in a direct line toward Mounds.  There was a church and store by the two room school house.  Not much else.Romine
 


Pine Hill School
 [noted in Self book as being
-- located about 8 miles NE of Bristow on Highway 33. Self  school is still standing (1999) Romine.  Mrs. Alsup, a local resident, of 90+ years stated she and all her children went to school there.  Her oldest child is 67.  Her mother was a Cunningham and she was a preacher!!
Pine Hill school joined the Dunham School District on the northwest. Self-10


Sapulpa Junior College
-- location ___?___ established in 1932 for the purpose of "equipping the student for higher study." The college was fully accredited and operated under the American Association of Junior Colleges. 1935-1936 enrollment was 69 students and increased to 94 students during the coming year.SapulpaJr


Sunrise School
-- location ___?___ established
As early as fall, 1907 Sunrise School was a log cabin one-fourth mile East of the Self farm. The Sunrise School was located too far toward the west side of the district and it was decided by the school board that within a year a new school house would be built on the east side of Polecat Creek near the center of the school district. This would place the school well over a mile from the Self family home. The Dunham School, District Number 19 was formed about this time and the center of this district was also located about a mile from the Self family home.Self-62,63 The road passing to the east of the Self homestead was the dividing line between Dunham School District on the west and the Sunrise School District on the east. Sunrise School District was consolidated into the Kellyville School System between 1940-1950. Self-9,10

The Sunrise School known to locals is now a church about one-fourth mile North of Sunrise Cemetery. Mr. Feeback, the Sunrise Cemetery caretaker for many years before his death, lived just to the south of the church.


Woodlawn School
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-- location
built in 1908. Until Jefferson and Garfield were built in 1909 students of those schools used Woodlawn in the afternoon. Woodlawn students attended in the morning. Martha K. Crawford was the principal and remained until retirement, in the spring of 1958. Woodlawn was built on two acres of land bought from the Euchee Mission. After the Euchee school was shut down in 1947 by government order, the Sapulpa School board bought the land from the Creeks in 1954 and the New Woodlawn School on Lincoln and Mission was built. Sap2-18


Wyatt School
-- location turn north at Sunrise Cemetery, at quarter section turn west for ___ mile(s), turn south toward Bristow
established
Wyatt School joined the Sunrise School District on the south. Self-10

 



Romine Personal Knowledge, July 1999.
SapulpaJr Students of the Sapulpa Junior College, compilers, An Early History of Sapulpa (no publisher, 1937).
Self Huber Self and Melvin Self. Growing Up in Indian Territory (Manhattan, Kan. : Ag Press, 1985).
Sapulpa V2 The Sapulpa Historical Society, Inc., Sapulpa, OK 74066 Vol. II (no place, privately printed, 1981).