Built in 1912 and still in operation, making it the oldest elementary school in Washington still in use,[2] it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

[3] On a reconnaissance trip for the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1869, Samuel Wilkeson located vast coal and sandstone deposits.

In 1876 the railroad built a line from Tacoma to the Wilkeson vicinity to develop the coal deposits.

[5] In 1971, the school was closed due to a levy defeat, and was leased for some time by a local church.

The load-bearing walls of locally quarried, cut sandstone are laid in broken courses.

A wooden cornice has mutules that surround the entire structure and is topped by a sandstone parapet wall.