Built in 1948 on the site of Reidville Female College, which operated from 1871 to 1910, Reidville Public School stood on the grounds of one of two private schools founded in 1857 by Rev. Robert Harden Reid and located on lands given by James N. Gaston, James Wakefield, and Anthony Wakefield. Reidville Male Academy, which operated from 1857 to 1905, occupied a building 1/2 mile east, and the schools were combined in 1905.