06/12/2026
In the late 1890’s, Mrs. George Halliburton opened a private school in her household for the children of the Sango community. She allegedly opened this school to stop young children, such as her grandson Troy, from walking multiple miles every day to get to school.
By 1899, a school board had been established and a schoolhouse had been built. It was a modest building known as the Montgomery Academy. In 1906, the Academy began to decline due to the opening of the Clarksville Joint High School. To combat this decline, the Academy’s building was sold to Montgomery County and made a public school, Sango School.
In 1912, the Sango School was expanded by consolidating with two other small schools – Davis and Grants. A one-teacher school building was attached to the back of the Sango School to accommodate the new students, but by 1925, the school had outgrown its small space.
The new 1925 building allowed the Sango School to continue to grow over the next twenty years. By 1942, it had taken in students from Walton, Carmel, Port Royal, and Shady Grove schools. In 1953, an additional five classrooms were built, making the total number of classrooms seven.
The school, located at the corner of Sango Road and Sango Drive, remained open until 1970. A Sango Elementary School was reopened in 1996 and remains open today, located on Sango Road. The old Sango School building had fallen into a state of disrepair, unfortunately, and was partly deconstructed to use the wood for lumber while the remains of the standing building was used for hay storage until it was also destroyed.
