The Newtown School was located east of Elkton on the road leading to Fox Mountain. The exact date of the construction of the school is unknown but it is not indicated in Lake's 1885 Atlas of Rockingham County. The first known teacher at Newtown was Jennie Lovett who taught at Newtown in 1882-83. Presumably the first one-room building was constructed at this time. In 1911, a second room was added to the school and for several years, Newtown was a two teacher school. Apparently the number of teachers varied as in some years only one teacher is indicated. During the teens and 1920s, funds for black school renovation and construction were provided through the Rosenwald Fund, a special grant to improve black education. The Rosenwald fund was used to construct a new school in 1921. For many years, black residents in the Elkton area referred to the school as the East Elkton Rosenwald school.

L. A. Hensley was contracted by the Stonewall District School Board to construct a new two-room school. The Newtown School served until 1965 when it was closed and Rockingham County Schools were integrated.

Teachers known to have taught at Newtown are:

1882-83 Jennie Lovett

1884-85 L. C. W. Jones

1885-86 Jane B. Lovett

1887-88 L. P. Clinton

1888-92 (four sessions) Annie Deams

1892-94 (two sessions) W. H. Barlow

1894-96 (two sessions) Amanda Williams

1896-98 (two sessions) Hannah A. Young (Nizer)

1898-99 Thomas J. Johnson

1899-1900 Hannah A. Nizer

1900-01 Annie M. Becks

1901-02 Samuel E. Rey

1902-03 Annie S. Reid

1903-04 Gertrude L. Frazier

1904-06 (two sessions) Fred W. Newman

1906-07 Mary E. Jones

1907-08 Lucy Jones

1908-09 (unknown)

1909-10 J. H. Carter

1910-11 Rebecca Scott

1911-12 Rebecca Scott, Roberta Morgan

1912-13 Bertha Nelson, Isabel Frye

1913-14 Lottie Lomax, Isabel Frye

1914-15 Lottie Lomax, Isabel Frye

1915-16 Fred C. Kimbo, B. H. Jenkins

1916-17 Fred C. Kimbo

1917-18 James Jackson

1918-19 Mrs. J. W. Wright

1919-20 (unknown)

1920-21 (unknown)

1921-23 (two sessions) Henriette Blount, Myrtle Newman

1923-24 Mary Robinson, Rachel Robinson

1924-26 (two sessions) Blanche E. Hall, Minerva Dennis

1926-27 Grace V. Postles, Lena Stephens

1927-28 Katie E. Smith, Dorothy Jones

1928-29 Katie E. Smith, Lena Stephens

1929-30 H. Booker Jones, Mable Dudley

1930-31 Birdie M. Stafford

1931-32 Mary E. Henry

1932-34 (two sessions) Dorothy M. Jones, Mary E. Henry

1934-35 Lynwood H. Johnson, Dorothy M. Jones

1935-36 Lynwood H. Johnson, B. Lavanna Watkins

1936-37 Veda Hicks, Goldie M. Smith

1937-39 (two sessions) Russell G. Hunter, Goldie M. Smith

1939-40 John H. Pleasants, Goldie M. Smith

1940-42 Catherine M. Reedy, Goldie M. Smith

1942-43 Mary A. Smith, Goldie M. Smith

1943-44 Lena T. Stephens, Goldie M. Smith

1944-47 (three sessions) Lena T. Stephens, Mattie L. Wright

1947-48 Marion V. Johnson, Mattie L. Wright

1948-49 Douglas C. Bowman, Mattie L. Wright

1948-50 Obadiah L.Simms, Mattie L. Wright

1950-53 (three sessions) Mattie L.Wright, Lessie V. Miller

1953-59 (six sessions) Lessie V. Miller

1959-65 (six sessions) Lessie V. Miller, Goldie L. Fields-

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