The Manning Collegiate Institute, the town’s first public school, opened here in early 1890 in a two-story frame school with a bell tower built in 1889-1890 and called one of the most handsome and imposing buildings in Manning. By 1899 the school was in debt and the building and property were endangered, but the family of Moses Levi (1826-1899), a farmer, merchant, and civic leader, bought it, cleared the debt, and donated it to the town. Renamed the Moses Levi Memorial Institute, the school operated here from 1899 to 1910. In 1910 a new two-story brick school was built here as Manning Graded School, and the old school was moved to West Boyce St. to house the Manning Training School. The new school, designed by Edwards, Walter, & Parnham of Atlanta, later served for many years as Manning High School. Manning High moved to a new building in 1982, and the old school here burned in 1983.