Three Rivers School District history

The earliest records of a Superintendent serving for Josephine County School District are from 1881.

In January 1945, all of these school districts combined to form the Josephine County School District.

There were no schools in Cave Junction until 1950, when a high school was built.

During the year of 1959 the Coshocton County School District completed a School Survey Study which, for several reasons, resulted in the desirability of further school district consolidation in Coshocton County.

On January 31, 1962 the new board acted to name this newly formed district River View Local School District.

A bond issue for 2.3 mills, generating the amount of $2,228,000 was placed before the voters and passed, in May of 1963 for the purpose of establishing a new high school site and building.

Information from River View Local School District Board Office and Golden Memories 1966

by Diane McVey Golden Memories 1967

Then in 1974, a new high school was built (Illinois Valley High School, still operating today) and the old high school became Lorna Byrne Middle School.

In 1977, the district opened two other new high schools-Hidden Valley High School and North Valley High School-and reorganized the junior high schools into middle schools-Fleming, Lincoln Savage, and Lorna Byrne.

Officially formed in 1994 when the Josephine County School District merged with the Applegate School District, Three Rivers is relatively young compared to its predecessors.

Excerpted from the Spring 1996 Taylor Made