Rix School
Texas Township
Location: District #12 – Section 5, northwest corner of O Avenue and 4th Street.
Kalamazoo County 1890, Published by Wm. C. Sauer. Local History Room
Teachers
1921-22 Mrs. Ruth Hutchins
1924-25 Evelyn Shaw
1925-26 Mrs. Evelyn Patten
1927-28 Mrs. Evelyn Patten
1929-31 Mrs. Evelyn Patten
1931-32 Mrs. Georgia Shaw
1932-33 Mrs. Maude Ritchie
1933-35 Dorothy Wetherell
1935-36 Elsie Van De Polder
1936-48 school closed
1948-49 no longer listed in county school directory
Compiled by Catherine Larson, Local History Specialist, Kalamazoo Public Library, 1999. Mapped October 2008. Last updated 28 June 2022.
Sources
Articles
“Rural schools break records in attendance”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 31 January 1923, page 13, column 2.
Copy in Education (Kalamazoo County) Scrapbook #1, page 1.
Maps and atlases
USGS Topographic Map for Kalamazoo County, 1922/1950 (Schoolcraft Quadrangle)
- History Room topographic map case, drawer 5B, folder 37
Files
Teachers’ and School Officers’ Directory, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, 1925-1948 (title varies)
- Shelved in a pamphlet box with H 379.774 K149 (History Room Storage)