YUCCA VALLEY- DISTRICT 64
Photo taken 1912-13 Grace Goodier Teacher
Top Row left to right: Grace Goodier, Elsie Byer, Lily Hunt, Carl hutchens, Tillie Byer, Anna Byer<br> Middle row left to right: John Leach, Neil Pinkston, Iva Gilbert, Sophia Byer, Effie Hutchens, Amy Gilbert.
Bottom row left to right: Raymond Hunt, Robert Leach, Milton Leach, Omer Hutchens, Conrad Leach, Frank Pinkstone, Rasmus Byer.
This school was located four miles south of Arnold . Early settlers named the Valley for the many Yucca plants growing there. The first school records I could fine were for the year 1886, however settlers were there in 1883 and there may have been a school then.
A.H. Needham taught the following pupils in a sod building in 1886:
Bertha Needham, LeRoy Needham, Myrtle Deardorf, Lonnie Bullock, Laura Deardorf, Bert Deardorf, Milly Marrs and Howard Blowers. A frame building was built in 1916. This building remained until it was torn down in the early 1960's.
Yucca Valley School became one of the largest country schools in the county.
1909-10 Students:
Albert Hunt, Raymond hunt, Maggie douglas, Ivy Gilbert, Bothilda Beyers, Moulton Hammond, Francis Hunt, Bessie douglas, Grace Garringer, Amy Gilbert, Elsie Beyers, Floy Newman, Rosa Hunt, Gerald Douglas, Harold Turpening, Vera Nansel, Annie Byer, Charlie Garringer, Lily Hunt, Lida Douglas, Hazel Turpening, Keith Walker, Sophia Beyer.