Grays Consolidated High School was built in 1927 on land donated by Robert L. Robinson as part of the late-1920s consolidation of small rural one- or two-room schools into elementary or high schools in towns and cities. Designed by Columbia architect James Hagood Sams (1872-1935), the school included grades 1-11 until grade 12 was added in 1948-49. After an arsonist burned the school in 1929, it was rebuilt according to Sams's plans in 1931 at a cost of $14,000. The school closed in the early 1970s and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.