Description :
Magnolia District High School started in 1914-15, in the Coleman Building in downtown Matewan. Little is known about this year. We do know that the school was located upstairs in this building and that the principal was E. V. Parsons. The school was housed in this building for one year while a building was being constructed.

In 1916, our first high school building was completed. This was the one with the white columns. It opened in 1916, with E. V. Parsons serving as principal. The second floor of this building served as the high school and the first floor housed grades three through eight. Grades one and two were located in the wood-frame building that stood across the street called the Goodson Building. Grades one and two were located in the bottom of this building and the upstairs was used as an auditorium. It was in this auditorium that Magnolia District High School held its first recorded commencement exercise in 1920, with Wells Goody Koontz delivering the first commencement address. However, records show that one person, Harold Adams, graduated in 1918, and at least on, Kitty Carnes, in 1919.