The Midway School was located on Sheets Hill in the eastern section of Central District. The school is located on what is now Indian Trail Road north of Keezletown a short distance north of its intersection with the Old Furnace Road. The school is indicated but not named in Lake's 1885 Atlas of Rockingham County. The school was also known as the Sheets Hill school, a name that became official when a new school was built in 1913. The date that the school was started is unknown and the earliest teachers at Midway are unknown. The Central District school trustees did not own the property for the school but rented it from the Parmer family. On November 16, 1914, land was deeded to the Central District school trustees by H. P Sheets and wife and a new building was constructed. This new building was built a short distance south of the original school on the Old Furnace Road near its intersection with the Indian Trail Road. According to the 1914 publication, The Public Schools of Rockingham County, the following notation was made about the new school: "The Sheets Hill house, too, was recently built, but surrounding schools have broken in on their school population until it is difficult to make a legal average at this place". The school was closed after the 1914-15 school session. Teachers known to have taught at Midway (Sheets Hill) are:

1894-95 Mary E. Sheppe

1895-96 Phoebe A. Sheppe

1896-98 (two sessions) Nora M. Custer

1898-99 Fannie Coffman

1899-1900 Annie R. Shelby

1900-01 O. C. Suthard

1901-03 (unknown)

1903-04 Lucy Martz

1904-05 (unknown)

1905-06 Annie Moore

1906-09 (unknown)

1909-10 Mae V. Burtner

1910-11 (unknown)

1911-12 Mary Womack

1912-13 Bessie Hart

1913-14 Nora Armentrout

1914-15 Virginia Earman

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