The Cross Roads School was built in 1906 at the intersection of the Greenmount Road and the Wenger's Mill Road (currently Route 753) to replace the Joe's Creek School. The section of the Greenmount Road between the old Joe's Creek School and the Cross Roads School no longer exists. The school population of the Joe's Creek School had shifted to the north and a more central location was needed. The last teacher at Joe's Creek, Daphna Rhodes, moved to the new Cross Roads when it was constructed. It was difficult to maintain a legal average of pupils at the new location and the school served for only ten years, closing after the 1915-16 school session In 1925, residents of the community appealed to the school board for a new Cross Roads School, stating that increased school population in the area and the lack of transportation could justify the building. During the summer of 1925, the patrons subscribed the amount of $170 and the school board paid the remainder of the $1000 cost of the building. Luther Zirkle was the builder for the new Cross Roads School, which opened in the fall of 1925

Teachers at Cross Roads were:

1906-09 Daphna Rhodes
1909-10 (Unknown)
1910-11 (unknown)
1911-12 Bertha O. Myers
1912-13 Florence Wenger
1913-14 Lena Cole
1914-15 Lena Hollar
1915-16 Beulah Flick

The school was closed after the 1915-16 school session.

After the new school was built in 1925, the following teachers taught at Cross Roads

1925-27 Ada Combs
1927-28 Wren Biller
1928-30 Dorothy Smith
1930-31 Annie E. Myers
1931-33 Mrs. Paul G. Kline
1933-34 Martha C. Holsinger
1934-35 Helen L. Garber

The Cross Roads School closed after the 1934-35 school session.

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