Fairview’s first school term in 1898 was five months long and served students from a wide rural area. The community built a two-room schoolhouse in 1917 and enlarged it by adding a cafeteria and an auditorium in the late 1940’s. It was classified as a one year high school in 1919 but only as an elementary school in 1930. Fairview consolidated with Lufkin Independent School District in 1963.