Popular opinion determines the town of New Vienna as the site of the first school in this township. (1271) The history of schools in this village is long. From classes in the Quarter Meeting house to the first log school house near the site of Hazel College to the present-day modern, rambling elementary school on the east edge of town, there were many changes. Between 1850 and 1860 a joint stock company built a two-story building with two rooms below and two rooms on the second floor. This was on the site of the present school premises. This subscription school, after  being purchased by the Society of Dunkards, failed to be self supporting and was soon discontinued.  The Dunkard Building was used by school directors (*in 1860 they had formed an independent school district) until 1878, when a new square brick building was erected with four rooms below and two rooms and a hall on the second floor. This was known as Whittier Hall. The first high school class graduated in 1881 consisting of Hallie Baum, Charles Blackburn, and Will Rayburn.

New Vienna High School, torn down in 1917

A new fire-proof building was constructed on the same premises in 1917-1918 at a cost of $70,000. The last class to graduate was in 1963, when the high school was consolidated with Wayne Township and moved to the Leescreek School under the name of Simon Kenton High School. That was changed to New Kenton in 1965. The final consolidation was in 1966 with Sabina joining the district under the name of East Clinton High School. The school premises at Leescreek have been enlarged to handle the consolidations.(224)

New Vienna High School, built 1917