The frame school sat on a foundation of bricks which had come from the brick school. In the concrete floored basement was a coal, later oil, furnace, a pump for water, and a small stage. Upstairs were two rooms. The west room, called the "big room," was for the upper grades. Across the hall the lower grade children had their room. In both rooms, the desks faced the blackboard on the north wall. Windows were on the east, south, and west. The hallway down the middle had lockers for the students.

School lasted from 9:00 until 4:00 with a full hour for lunch since many students went home. There were two daily recesses. During the winter, recesses were spent sliding down the hill. The fastest sleds would go almost as far as Jack Lovett's store until someone complained about the sleds going over her land. The school yard gate was closed and the sledding was restricted.

Again: District Without A School

Katherine Krim and Ruth Foster were the teachers for the 1942-43 school year. Krim had the lower grades, kindergarten through fourth, while Foster taught the upper grades. It was Foster's first year at the Pleasant Hill school. For the next school year, starting in the fall of 1943, Foster changed to teaching he lower grades and Lola Mahaffey was hired to teach the upper grades since Krim had resigned.

On November 15, 1943, a Monday evening, a fire started in the furnace room of the school house.It might have been an overheating of the furnace that started the fire. There were no reports of an explosion but the fire spread quickly through the air vents. The whole building was soon engulfed.