File contains newspaper clippings concerning the closure of one and two-room schools and the consolidation of schools in Central Hastings, and the implementation of changes to kindergarten enrolment in County School Area 2 (Central Hastings).

File contains several newspaper clippings regarding Quinte District High School Board finances, proposed additions to local elementary schools, and proposed changes to the composition of the Centre Hastings High School District.

File contains a manuscript letter from T.S. Agar, superintendent of schools, North Hastings County to A.F. Wood, Warden concerning examinations, and school funding.

File contains a manuscript register for School Section 20, Thurlow Township for 1880-1901. Also present is a circular letter dated September 1, 1921 from H.J. Clarke, Public School Inspector, Hastings County, to Hastings County teachers concerning registers to be maintained by teachers, teacher's conventions and related administrative matters.

File contains the Apportionment of the Legislative School Grant for Upper Canada for 1862. Hastings County was to receive $4131.

File contains information regarding teacher exams in Hastings County from 1860-1862.

File contains a letter and information sent to Hastings County Council regarding school laws in Upper Canada in 1857.

File contains papers regarding appointments of local Superintendents from 1855-1858 in Hastings County.

File contains Hasting County Council motions to appoint school trustees and a motion for Superintendents to receive 100 pounds each year.

File contains 1860-1862 Hastings County Council appointments of Superintendents in North and South Hastings.

File contains papers containing motions made and passed at meetings of Hastings County Council regarding education.

File contains a newspaper article about the high performance of girls in the 1969 graduating class, with more girls being named Ontario Scholars and the highest marks in the county, 95%, was earned by Joan Brownson of Madoc.

File contains a letter to the Governor General with a petition regarding school sections in Hastings County.

File contains an 1860 petition of the teachers of the South Riding of Hastings County to the Municipality to be paid directly from the County Treasury.

File contains an auditor's report of the County of Hastings in 1855, the Legislative School Grant for Upper Canada for 1857 and 1860 (Hastings was to receive $3343.20 and $3952.00, respectively).

File contains a note from Hastings County Council regarding Board of Education members attendance at meetings in 1858.

File contains a printed report of promotion examinations listing students and their grades, 1916; printed scripture readings for use in religious instruction in public and high schools in Ontario; printed and manuscript Annual report of the Principal, Thurlow, 1929; and various blank, printed provincial forms for the engagement of a teacher and trustees' statement of expenditures. Also contains a typescript will and correspondence concerning Earl Gilbert Wheeler, gunner, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1917, and a printed preamble to the Covenant of the League of Nations.

File contains information about accounts in 1862 from County Council of the County Hastings to the North Hastings Board of Public Instruction.

File contains various papers from 1872, including a letter from the Inspector of Schools regarding schools in the township of Sidney, Thurlow, and Tyendinaga, two petitions against the annexing land from other schools to enlarge School No. 11 in Rawdon, etc.

File contains a letter regarding the health of the Superintendent in the North Riding of Hastings, and invoices for supplies for the Board of Public Instruction in 1862.