Before the village of Garvin was founded, on December 3, 1879, district No. 47 was organized. The signers of the petition for the organization of the district were Daniel Willford, E. H. Cutts, A. S. Cutler, L. Soward, Thomas L. Harris, Robert Owens, Hugh R. Hughes, Robert R. Owens, Margaret Jones, Oren Johnson, John H. Hughes, John S. Owens, H. C. Masters, John L. Harris, C. M. Goodrich, W. W. Harrison, John Avery, Walter DeLong, Simon DeLong, James Steele, John H. Griffiths, Solomon Evans, George S. Robinson, Edward Glynn, B. R. Bass, Jeremiah Evans, David Davis, H. Peterson, Clemet
Helleson, Thomas Nelson and Hans Jacobson.
The first teacher of the school was Annie G. Shand and the first officers of the district were E. H. Cutts, clerk; Thomas L. Harris, treasurer; and Daniel Willford, director. Other officers of the district have been A. G. Bumford, Clinton Wiflford, O. R. Owens, Hans Johnson, Ed. Edwards, W. W. Jones, C. R. Holden, N. S. Peterson, A. L. Colburn and E.. M. Jones.
Others who taught the Garvin school since 1897 have been N. S. Peterson, Arthur O. Dillon, Glenola Collins, Elizabeth Carlysle, Hannah Johnson, Etta A. Lucas, Myrtle Ladd, S. S. Swanson, H. R. Painter, Mrs. H. R. Painter, Rose Osborn, Ida Amundson, Clara Welty, C. H. Webb, Edith M. Engstrom, Leona Blanchard, Delia Cook, Eunice Davis, Agnes Peterson and Clara Jacobson
A two-room school house was built in 1901 and that was replaced in 1911 by a four-room brick school house, erected at a cost of $1,500.
