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From 1889 to 1947 this school district saw many changes as the community grew from a rural farming area to a thriving coal camp after the sinking of the deep coal mine No. 8 owned by the Pittsburg National Coal and Mining Company.

Records show that the one-room school building served the pupils of School District No. 100 from 1889 to 1908 when the enrollment had grown to 94 pupils.  In this year a new building was added.  It was a three-room T-shaped, one story, frame building which was erected to the south of the then existing one-room school.  Eventually the enrollment for both high school and grade school students reached a peak of 262 pupils in 1919, which was contained in three buildings with 8 rooms in use, then gradually decreased to an enrollment of 21 in 1947, back to a one-room school in summer of 1947, District No. 100 and No. 107, Curranville, were united to firm district No. 130, known as Foxtown Union School which began its first school term in September 1947.

As enrollment increased and it became necessary to begin a high school in 1915, (The authenticity of this date has not been fully established.  More research is in progress.), the one-room building was moved to Foxtown, (this too, is hearsay), still retaining the name Fairview and a two-story, 4-room building was erected on the vacated site.  The grade school was housed in the T-shaped, 3-room, frame building.  Later the high school was moved to the T-shaped building and the grade school to the 2-story; four-room building.  In summer of 1927, the T-shaped building was replaced by a new 2-story building, consisting of a superintendent’s office, two classrooms, and gymnasium auditorium on the lower floor and study hall or assembly room on the second floor.  This building was destroyed by fire in April 1928.  The now existing building was built the following summer in time to resume school in the fall of 1928.  The two-story, four-room building was in use until 1942 when it was again being used as a high school.  The transition had been made in 1936 when the high school enrollment could not be contained in the three-classroom building.  It was during the 1930’s that the high school enrollment reached its peak.  The one-story building became the grade school, having three classrooms and the large auditorium-gymnasium being used by both high school and grade school students.  The two-story building was converted into a library, study hall, three classrooms, and a superintendent’s office.  This building was demolished sometime between 1941 and 1946.

The school’s name was changed from Fairview to Cockerill in 1921 according to records found in the Register of Deeds Office in Girard, Kansas.  It has not been truly established why the name was changed, as several versions have been offered and more research is still in progress.

In the 60 years, School District No. 100, known both as Fairview and Cockerill, educated and sent forth into the world many men and women.  Using the combined best efforts of students and teachers, it received recognition in winning many first place honors in all academic phases; athletics, speech, drama, music, and al other scholastic subjects.  Honors were received in county, state, and national competition.

Two hundred seventy-three students were graduated from its four-year high school which was in existence for eighteen years, but hundreds of others have attended classes in this school and loyalty and pride remain with all its students and teachers.