A Tulsa newspaper (the Democrat) printed the following item: A government school began at Dawson with an enrollment of 60.

Children in the seventh and eighth grades were sent from Dawson to Tulsa's Cleveland Junior High School.

In 1929, Tulsa's Board of Education approved construction of a new elementary school to serve the Dawson area and to open in 1930.

For historical purposes, the Tulsa Board returned the old building to the community of Dawson.

The retired school building became a community activity center for Dawson, a town named in honor of its first postmaster W.A.