Editing Fords Prairie, Washington (section)

==Education==
The first school in Fords Prairie was the Lum Schoolhouse, located on the corner of present-day Lum Road and Reynolds Avenue. The community's school district, by 1906, served 100 students and was at the time the largest rural school district in Lewis County. A wood, two-story school was constructed in 1916 for $13,000. The schoolhouse, which served students up to 10th grade, expanded in 1925 with a basement and playroom. The home economics class provided extra food to students during the later years of the Great Depression.<ref name="SCSWW"/>

The Fords Prairie school district merged with Centralia in 1944 and the schoolhouse burned down in 1945. The community constructed a new school facility in 1947 which included the first kindergarten class in the town.<ref name="SCSWW"/>

[[Centralia High School (Centralia, Washington)|Centralia High School]] is located within Fords Prairie.<ref name="CCSCT"/>