The first school built here about 1890 was a two-room frame building that was replaced about 1918 by a two-story brick school. In 1921 another classroom building and an auditorium were added. The federal Works Progress Administration helped fund several projects here, including the construction of a new gymnasium in 1938. The two-story school was razed in 1958 and replaced by the one-story building that remains today, and the 1921 auditorium and the 1938 gymnasium also survive. When Richland County decided to consolidate its school districts in 1951, Blythewood was one of four schools in the new Richland School District 2. For much of its history, the school remained segregated and open only to white students. That ended in 1969 when Richland District 2, along with school districts throughout S.C., implemented desegregation plans. From 1970 to 1991 the building housed Blythewood Elementary, and in 1994 it became Blythewood Academy.