Jenny's Creek High School

Alfred Johnson was appointed the first principal and teacher of the newly created Jenny's Creek High School on September 2, 1935. Johnson had served as county superintendent in 1934 and had been instrumental in the new high school's founding.

The school building at Leander was built by James Caudill while the high school's first students attended classes at a nearby grocery store.

After Johnson's departure in 1936, James Lloyd Clay, Ollie Adams, Frank Webb and Alva Rice served as principals and teachers at Jenny's Creek High School. The school was closed in 1946.

During its brief history as a county high school, the students of Jenny's Creek High School traveled to school by walking, riding horses or wagons, a railroad and, finally, by bus. A train ran from Magoffin County to Hager Hill with stops at Leander, Denver and Collista. The engineers would stop for the school kids and carry them to the next stop or to school.

We are told that the school featured running water...the students ran to the well and carried the water back in buckets. Each room was heated in winter by a pot-bellied stove.

In spite of these Spartan conditions, however, the students of Jenny's Creek High School would not have had it any other way. They not only learned well but developed a since of comradeship for their teachers and for each other.

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