The McGaheysville Colored School was located on the Rockingham Turnpike (currently Old Route 33) about one mile east of McGaheysville. The land for the school was deeded to the Stonewall District School Board by J. R. Dutrow and wife on December 30, 1884. The original one-room building was used until 1922 when the patrons of the school requested a new building. Land for the new building was deeded to the Stonewall District School Board in August of 1922 by C. R. McGahey and others and a new school was built by L. A. Hensley at a cost of $1300. The McGaheysville Colored School was closed in 1943 and the students were transported to Lucy Simms School in Harrisonburg. Teachers known to have taught at the McGaheysville Colored School were:

1887-90 (three sessions) James P. Johnson

1890-91 John H. Penrose

1891-92 Bessie E. Gardner

1892-93 C. M. Dame

1893-97 (four sessions) T. C. Edmonds

1897-1900 (three sessions) Samuel E. Ray

1900-02 (two sessions) W. E. McKenzie

1902-04 (two sessions) F. W. Newman

1904-05 J. B. Brown

1905-06 Haddie H. Newman

1906-07 Mary M. Steele

1907-08 (unknown)

1908-10 (two sessions) J. C. Holmes

1910-11 Nora E. Murphy

1911-12 Annie Browder

1912-13 Lelia M. Jackson

1913-14 J. B. Arter

1914-15 Lelia M. Jackson

1915-17 (two sessions) Ruth May Johnson

1917-18 Rachel Gaines

1918-21 (three sessions) Mattie Stieff

1921-22 Genevieve Hamilton

1922-23 Mabel Dudley

1923-29 (six sessions) Isabel Wright

1929-30 Hallie Booker Jones

1930-32 (two sessions) Isabel Wright

1932-34 (two sessions) Margaret C. Puryear

1934-36 (two sessions) Veda B. Hicks

1936-38 (two sessions) Mattie C. Mundy

1938-43 (five sessions) Lena T. Stephens

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