Vic Peterson recalled attending the school and some of his classroom activities around this time. As he related it, he and his friend Jim Christianson sat next to the wall in school, and during class they would grind the tips of their stylus into the brick wall. After two years of this, the two boys had a hole through the brick to the outside.

Teachers did not stay long at the Pleasant Hill school. Margery Arthur was an exception. She taught the lower grades, "primer" (kindergarten, but not considered as such), first, second and third grades, from 1909 until 1915. Other teachers during this time were Elizabeth Blaze (1904), Cliff Wrist, Martha Leadas, Constance Holmes (1911), Margurite Hanke (1913-1916), and Veda Romans (1916-1918).

In 1917, the teachers were Veda Romans and J. B. Knowles. Romans taught the lower grades on the first floor of the brick school. Knowles was upstairs with the older students in fourth through eighth grades. About November of 1917, Romans was married. Because of the prevailing attitude that a married woman's place was to be in the home, Romans had to resign. To replace her, the school board hired Alta Brown. Brown grew up in Youngstown and had gone through school there. She later passed the exam to become a teacher. Brown finished the school year and then taught all of the next year.

Perhaps it was because of the tight economic situation in the district that teachers did not stay long. The tight money could also account for the school board's decision in 1917 to sell the old frame school house that had been replaced in 1892.