Stony Point School was established in Williamson County by 1891 and served rural children in grades one through eight, many of them the sons and daughters of families that had emigrated from Sweden. For many students, school provided their first regular exposure to English, and as they learned and mastered the language, they carried it home, helping newly arrived Swedes overcome the language barrier and acclimate to this land. The school also gave many students who often lived on farms their only formal education. During its existence, the school changed locations twice, beginning in a one-room building on the Noack Ranch nicknamed Noack's Ark, which students affectionately called Arken, the Swedish word for ark, and later moving to sites west and southwest of the original location. In 1942, the school officially closed when historic Stony Point merged with the Round Rock Independent School District. Alumni and teachers have continued to gather every two years to celebrate the former school, and in 1999 a new high school in Round Rock was named Stony Point in honor of the pioneer school, linking a modern campus in a growing district to the earlier rural community it once served.