Spaders School was a one-room frame building located about 1 1/2 miles east of the Pleasant Valley Depot near Spaders Church. The school is indicated in Lake's 1885 Atlas of Rockingham County and the school building is situated adjacent to the Spader's Church cemetery. The school is near the Pleasant Valley (Spaders) Colored school which was located a short distance east of the Spaders White school. The one-room school was built in 1875. In 1892, a second room was added and Spaders became a two-teacher graded school with 56 pupils and a five-month school term. The Spader school continued in operation until it was consolidated with the old Pleasant Valley school in 1905 into the new Pleasant Valley school. The only teachers known to have taught at Spaders were:

1892-94 (two sessions) J. F. Neff

1894-95 T. H. Siegfried

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