Along state highway 59 stands a sign announcing this is where a school once stood, the school was built in 1917 and was burned down in the spring of 1955.  Arson was suggested.  Kit Carson had just built a new school and there was plenty of room for the few Mount Pearl students.

Some of the parents were against the Mount Pearl students going into Kit Carson School.              “Such a long drive.” the parents said,” the kids will get home after dark, do not want them on the road in the winter, and remember what happened in Towner.”  That was the school bus tragedy; when the bus stalled and five students and the bus driver froze to death.

“These are different times the buses are better the roads are better,” the school board pointed out.  Some of the parents thought the children would be better educated in town.  But most parents did not want to lose their small school and community.

Mount Pearl was a two room school house the little room and the big room.  The rooms were of equal size it was just the little room on the south was for the first through fourth grade and the big room on the North was for fifth through eighth grade.  Two teachers taught all eight grades.  The lunch room was in the basement a woman cooked hot meals every day. A small building stood southwest of the school and another small building stood northwest of the school this was the two outhouses, south building was for the boys and north building was for the girls.

 There was a baseball field in the pasture right south of the school where many feet had worn the grass away.  At every recess and lunch period, when the weather was warm, a baseball game was played the game took most of the students; they all played.  No fights; all were needed for two teams.