photo courtesy Welcome to TomThe first school was built in 1910 on Cherry Street in Tomball on land donated to the school district.
Tomball grows from one-room schoolhouse
When the first school was started in Tomball in 1908, 12 to 15 students were enrolled. Classes were held in a one-room wooden frame building—the Woodmen of the World building—and students' desks were hewn wooden blocks and benches that circled the room around a wood-burning stove.
The first school building was built in Tomball in 1910 on Cherry Street on donated land. It was a two-story red brick schoolhouse, with two classrooms downstairs and an auditorium upstairs. The school, which cost $5,766.90 to build, was part of the Harris County School System and enrolled 62 students by 1916.
"Typically the country schools were locally organized and run by the parents," said Jean Alexander, director of the Tomball Museum. "Usually the fathers of the first students became the board of education and made the rules."
As Tomball grew, so did the schools. By 1928, there were four schools in Tomball, and by 1931, there were five teachers employed by the district.
