The first school in the Florence area was built in the 1840s, in what was then called Cutler's Park by Mormon pioneers.

[1] As early as 1868 the Florence School was used as a polling place in Nebraska state elections.

[2] A new building was erected in 1889 at the base of the bluff overlooking the Missouri River.

[3] In the 1890s, Julia Krisl became one of the first Czech principals in the city of Omaha while at the Florence School.

[5] Florence B. Reynolds, a principal at the school in the 1920s, was a published scholar who examined labor relations with teachers.