West Lake School was established in 1881, and stood about half-way between Upper Lake and Lakeport, along the present Highway 29. George Lyons, Sr. gave one acre of land on which to build the school. It was consolidated with Lakeport Union Elementary in 1937. The school stood idle after it closed until the Seventh Day Adventist Church bought the property. They used it for their school for a few years until they built a modern school building.
A local man who had been a student at West Lake tells about the older boys who had trap lines which they tended on the way to school each morning. Sometimes they caught skunks and there was no time to go home to change their clothes!
1891-West Lake Teacher - Harry Reynolds, Clerk - William B. Haywire
GRADUATES OF WEST LAKE SCHOOL -
1899 - Edna Crumpacker, Roberta Lyon, Alma Taylor
1908 - Fay Gazelle, Harold Lyon
1912 - Promoted to 8th Grade - Eltori/Elton Henderson
1916 - Catherine Boardman, Adrian Woods
1917 - Donald Lyon
1919 - Dorothy Lyon
1921 - Lois Lyon, Mildred McCullough
1924 - Robert McCullough, Frank Treppa
1929 - Hamlin Boxey
1930 - Ivan Anderson
1931 - Curtis Anderson
1932 - Varges Anderson
1934 - Ben Green, Delphina Treppa, Verna Treppa
1935 - Robert Anderson, Lydia Lundborg
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