The Oak Grove School was located in the northwest corner of Linville District near Dry River in Brock's Gap. The school was built in 1880 and served as a school until 1919 when it was combined with the Shoemaker School to become the two-room Genoa School. Superintendent George Hulvey toured the schools of northwestern Rockingham County in November of 1886 and wrote an account of his visit for the weekly newspaper, the Rockingham Register. He noted the following about the Oak Grove School: "Wednesday morning dawns and the sky is still clouded over and threatening, but we start, in the company of Mr. Hoover, in a nearly northern direction, and soon reach Oak Grove Schoolhouse, #28. Here we found collected quite a number of pupils under the instruction of Mr. J. C. Cooper.

Teachers known to have taught at Oak Grove were:

1886-87 J. C. Cooper
1909-10 Emma Turner
1911-12 Robert Souder
1912-13 Grant Souder
1913-14 James Fawley
1914-15 B. F. Spitzer
1915-16 Ervin Chapman
1916-17 James Fawley
1917-18 Lena Custer
1918-19 Myrtle Bennett

Oak Grove closed in 1919.

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