The first school building erected near the present Thaxton School was made out of material brought from the school house at Keelers. It was a one-room school, and a curtain was used as a partition to divide it into two rooms. This building was sold to Mr. John Morgan who made it into a kitchen that served the school.

In 1907, high school was first offered in addition to the seven elementary grades at Thaxton. The high school curriculum consisted of algebra, English, history, and Latin.

Consolidation began in September 1927, when children above the fifth grade were brought by bus to Thaxton from Reba and Penicks schools, and high school students were taken from all three areas to Montvale High School. A new brick building consisting of two rooms and toilets, with steam heat, was built in 1933. By 1938 all children from Union School were sent to Thaxton.

Wheatland School was closed and the pupils were placed at Thaxton in 1941. This same year, children of grades one through four from Reba and Penicks schools were also sent by bus to Thaxton and these two schools were closed.

Children from Robertson, Ross, and Johnson schools were sent to Thaxton when these schools were closed. In 1952 two rooms were added to the brick building. In 1960 the school at Cool Springs was closed. Some of the children were sent to Thaxton and some to Montvale.

The last building program was completed in 1960. The school now had eleven classrooms, a library with two workrooms, an office suite, a multi-purpose room, kitchen, storage rooms, and toilets.

All day kindergarten was added to the school program in 1973. Approximately 65 students were transferred from Montvale Elementary School in 1974 and 1975.

The current gymnasium, which includes an additional classroom (computer lab) and toilets, was added in 1992. Three mobiles have been placed behind the building to accommodate classes, Title I reading, and the Gifted program.

Bedford County’s Five-Year Plan includes the building of two additional classrooms.