Harrison school began in a rented house with two teachers on the eastern outskirts of Shawnee. The building pictured above was built in 1917, at 229 North Harrison Street.   It remained a grade school until 1964 when the last elementary children were taught in the building.  The following year it was opened as Harrison Annex and housed sophomores from the high school who were bused over for many of their core subjects because of overcrowding at the high school caused by the "Baby Boom" era.  The plan lasted two or three years until the classes returned to "pre-boom" size.

Harrison became the board of education building and was used in the capacity until 1981.  The old building was torn down so that the state could widen Harrison Street in 1981.  Today the community center of the Sac & Fox Nation is located on the property.*

*Ann McDonald, SHAWNEE SUN: A Hundred Years...A Dozen Buildings.  Recalling School Buildings Is An Education In Itself (Shawnee Sun newspaper, Tecumseh, May 20, 1999).