Glen Avon School

The first school in what is now known as Glen Avon was on Tyrolite Street. School was held in a little building that was more a shed than a school. When that was deemed inadequate, a man by the name of John R. Johnston donated two acres on Pyrite Street for a new school, the same site where Glen Avon School is located today. A one room schoolhouse was built on the site in 1895. It was a wooden building that faced Pyrite Street. By 1909 the student population at the school was a respectable 57 students in grades first through eighth.  The school was not originally called Glen Avon. The entire area at that time was called West Riverside and so the new school was called by that name. Today's West Riverside School was called Jurupa School. Confused yet? In the 1908-09 school year the community around the West Riverside School decided to rename itself Glen Avon and the following school year the school and school district changed its name to Glen Avon as well.