The Fox Mountain School was a two-room school located about three miles east of Elkton. The Fox Mountain school opened in 1910 to replace the Furnace School which had burned two years earlier and had been operating in rented quarters. Original plans developed by the school board included tearing down the old Swift Run school and rebuilding it as a new school to replace the Furnace School. However, after an appeal by the residents of the Furnace community to Superintendent Hulvey, the school board decision was reversed and a new school was built. (see Furnace School information). The Fox Mountain school served the community until 1958 when it became one of the last small schools in the Elkton area, along with Maple Spring, Roadside and Sandy Bottom, to close.

Teachers known to have taught at Fox Mountain are:

1910-11 Melvin Pence, Sallie Breeden
1911-12 Lelia Naylor, S. J. Pence
1912-13 Lelia Naylor, Maude Shipp
1913-14 Lottie McCoy, Bertha Naylor
1914-15 Verta Wagner, Lelia Naylor
1915-17 (two sessions) Lottie McCoy, Florence Harman
1917-19 (two sessions) S. J. Pence, Lelia Naylor
1919-20 L. A. Hensley, Lelia Naylor
1920-21 Annie Laurie Hensley, Elvira Glenn
1921-22 Annie Laurie Hensley, Nellie Hensley
1922-23 Ruth Shoemaker, Nora Hensley
1923-24 Annie Laurie Hensley, Nora Hensley
1924-25 Margie Merica, Nora Hensley
1925-29 (four sessions) Annie Laurie Hensley, Valley Stover
1929-30 Annie Laurie Furry, Valley Stover
1930-32 (two sessions) Annie Laurie Furry, Marie Pence
1932-33 Everett Wilfong, Grace Dearing
1933-35 (two sessions) Harry E. Will, Grace Dearing
1935-36 Harry E. Will, Fern Trissel
1936-38 (two sessions) Clarence Wampler, Fern Trissel
1938-39 Evelyn Faught, Fern Trissel
1939-42 (three sessions) John F. Garber, Fern Trissel
1942-43 J. Weldon Martin, Fern Trissel
1943-46 (three sessions) Mrs. Elsie M. O'Rear, Grace Haney
1946-47 Helen Eppard, Grace Haney
1947-51 (four sessions) Mrs. A. J. Burnette, Grace Haney
1951-52 Mrs. Sallie G. Richards,
1952-56 (four sessions) Raymond J. Hilliard
1956-58 (two sessions) Mrs. Kathleen G. Cubbage

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