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Luray School District #11 began in 1872 when citizens of the surrounding area around the Lura Post Office saw a need for their children to be educated.

Disagreement about the site was noted in the paper because the school was being built in the northwest end of Luray on school land. Many citizens thought that the new school should be built in the place of the old one. But the new school was built in Luray in a victorian design made of wood. It replaced the Lura limestone school that is still partially standing now.

 

This building was struck by lightning and burned down before anyone could save it. The school was rebuilt but of limestone this time instead of wood. It housed the Luray Grade School, Common School and when a few high school classes started, the Luray High School. On the decision to have a high school because students were going to Osborne, Russell or Lincoln for high school, a limestone high school was added.

 

 

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