John Hall was the first principal of Eagle Mountain Elementary. Some older students continued to attend Desert Center school after the opening of Eagle Mountain Elementary School. Prior to that elementary students were bused to the Desert Center School. In those days students graduated on to high school, traveling by bus, to Coachella Valley Union High School (CVUHS).Р”В®agle Mountain Elementary School's first opened for the 1957-1958 school year. The greatest distance traveled in those days was about 20 miles one-way. The enrollment climbed to 110, with students from Eagle Mountain, Eagle Mountain Water District, and Ocotillo Gardens arriving by bus, and also students from Hayfield Water District, Rock House, and Ironwood, as well as Desert Center, by private auto. January 1954 the new school added a fourth teacher to the staff. In the spring of 1952 the children moved to a new red brick four-room building that is still standing. A third temporary building was added in 1949, making a three-teacher school. The school site was later moved about one-half mile east of Desert Center and was located there since 1935. School once more opened in a building near the cafe. The Ragsdale children were the only children and they were in high school.Р”Р„bout this same time the Metropolitan Water District started construction on the aqueduct. Six children attended taught by Miss Inwood. It is said that the goats were so hungry for knowledge that they chewed the outer edges of the building so that it was beyond further use.

In the school year 1926-1927 a building was erected to hold school once again at Desert Center.

They traveled to school in a Model-T Ford. This was the original dirt road to the valley before the highway 60/70 was built. Local students drove through Box Canyon, through Mecca, to thermal which was a 52 mile trip. There was no school for the 1925-1926 year. In July 1925 Desert Center was moved to the present townsite. The first term was taught by Miss Fellows and finished by Mr. Classes were held for three years at this school from 1922 to 1925. A teacher was sent out by the Superintendent of schools for the four Ragsdale children. The first public school was established at the old site of Desert Center which was 3 miles North of the present Desert Center in 1922. In 2008 it had 19 enrolled students and 2 teachers. By 1985 there were only 4 regular education classes, six teachers and 75 students at the school. The high school was converted to become the kindergarten through eighth grade Eagle Mountain School for the area's few remaining students. All of the district's furniture and supplies were placed into storage at Eagle Mountain High School. Three of the Desert Center Unified School District schools closed their doors. The high school held its final graduation. Life as it had been known in Eagle Mountain for the previous 35 years came to an end in June, 1983 when Kaiser Steel's Eagle Mountain Mine finally ceased operations. Eagle Mountain High School (currently Eagle Mountain School KРІР‚вЂњ8).Eagle Mountain School (on the closed Eagle Mountain High School campus at 1434 Kaiser Road, Eagle Mountain).

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