Rubyville Elementary School

Rubyville Elementary School is one of two elementary schools in the Clay Local School District in the far southern region of the U.S. state of Ohio. Rubyville Elementary (a.k.a. Rubyville) serves students in grades four through six. The building is located on Maple Benner Road at the intersection of State Route 139 in Scioto County's Wayne Township. The other elementary building in the district is Rosemount Primary School (K-3) located on Rose Valley Road in Rosemount.Brief historyThe Clay Local School District (CLSD) was created in 1940 to serve the residents of Clay Township and the individual communities of Eden Park, Rosemount, Rubyville, and Twin Valley. For those students who desired to go on to high school before the opening of the high school in 1940, the board of education provided their tuition to Glenwood High School or to Portsmouth High School. "There were buses to transport students to and from school, but there was no cafeteria, therefore, students brought their lunches." The first graduating class in 1940 was nicknamed the "Dirty Dozen" because there were twelve students that walked across the stage for the first time as Clay graduates.