The first school taught in the town section of Anson was opened in April 1882 and closed in July of the same year.
The next school was taught by and in the home of E. G. Jones, with the assistance of his wife (in 1956, the Johnny Moore Magnolia Station was located in the same place).
The first school building was built on Block 55, Lot 4 (in 1933 it was owned by Joe Grace Estate).
They were graduated in 1897; the class consisting of Lola Hale, Allie Maxwell, Lelia Morris, Effie Neville, and Nannie Thompkins, and the principal was C. E. Evans.
[6] The Texas author Lou Halsell Rodenberger (1926–2009) graduated as the valedictorian of Anson High School at the age of sixteen in 1942.
[1] Anson High School participates in the boys sports of baseball, basketball, football, and wrestling.