The Cloverdale School was located about three miles south of Broadway, east of Linville Creek, and on the road that extended from Cherry Grove to Daphna (then Cowans) The road is currently Route 809. The year that the school was built is unknown but, based on some diary entries recorded by Agnes Kline, the school was in existence in the late 1860s. The school started out as a private (subscription) school and was probably absorbed into the public school system soon after 1872. Some of the teachers known to have taught at Cloverdale were:

J. Preston
Emmanuel Wilkins (about 1875)
Dick Ashby
Samuel R. Kline
Zach Samuels
Samuel Moyers

On November 4, 1882, the Cloverdale schoolhouse was sold to J. H. Shirkey for forty dollars. It is supposed that J. H. Shirkey was acting as a trustee for the Plains District School Board. The school was moved and rebuilt and re-opened as the Shirkey School.

(For additional information consult, Old Schools on Linville Creek, Agnes Kline, Park View Press, 1973)