Public School To meet the needs of the growing school population a four-room school to be known as Public School was built in 1947 on the same site as the two-room school - the building now occupied by McKenna's Furniture Store . The old school was sold to Claude MacNeill who had it moved near the railroad tracks and used it as a feed warehouse until it burned in 1960. In 1953, because of the continued increase in village school pop¬ ulation plus more pupils coming in from rural areas, a new wing was added which provided two more classrooms and an office shared by the principal and staff. In the same year, Grade eleven was added to tthe curriculum. A short time later the board began to press the Department of Education to provide Grade Twelve or full matriculation. In spite of repeated requests and a formal brief from the board to the Minister of Education requesting that a Regional High School be established in O'Leary with full laboratory and classroom accommodation, no action was taken. In 1959 Grade Twelve was finally established in the O'Leary District . However, promotional efforts to establish a district high school were continued by Supervisor Merritt E. Callaghan , Earle Jelley and Lewis Mackenzie . Regional High School 81