The Wink School organized in April 1928, when an independent district formed and the first board of trustees was elected. Built in 1929, Wink Junior High and High School is a two-story building with running bond brick cladding and Mission Revival styling, including shaped parapets, decorative tiles, and clay tile roofs over arcades and covered entries. Its architect was Milton C. Butler (1888-1968) of the Butler Company of Lubbock, who designed dozens of public buildings in Texas and other states from the 1920s to the 1950s, including the Bailey, Yoakum, and Hockley County courthouses. The school complex changed over the years with the addition of the Lena Laughlin Auditorium in 1968, a new cafeteria and physical fitness center in 1983, and a library wing in 1999. Roy Orbison, a rock-n-roll singer and songwriter, grew up in Wink and graduated from Wink High School in 1954; while in high school, he and some friends formed a country music group called the Wink Westerners and often performed at the school and on a weekly radio station program. The high school served not only as a place for learning but also as a gathering place for community activities and sporting events, with local groups meeting in the cafeteria, Wildcat Alumni holding an all-class reunion every five years in conjunction with the Roy Orbison Festival, and athletics, marching band, student volunteers, and other school groups remaining a source of pride for the Wink Wildcats and the community.