The current Vernon High School on Moss Hill Road was completed for fall of 2006 classes.

[5] In 1872, the citizens in the area of Vernon began raising money for a school and in 1876 two acres of land were donated by a Mr. Roche.

The county board entered into a $1,000 contract for construction and a two-room schoolhouse it was completed in 1877.

It was destroyed by fire in 1905 and it was replaced with a four-room building.

Another Vernon High School was built in 1931 serving kindergarten through twelfth grades, and a separate elementary school was built in 1968 on the east side of Vernon.