Editing Olpe, Kansas (section)

==Education==
The community is served by [[Southern Lyon County USD 252]] public school district.

===Olpe High School===
{{main|Olpe Junior-Senior High School}}

===Olpe Elementary School===
Before Olpe Elementary was a school, the school was called Harmony Hill, that started as a one-room school house and had later additions. It was located in the countryside, approximately three miles north of Olpe. In December 1991, Olpe Elementary School was completed. The elementary wing of the building adjoins the cafeteria to the west of the high school. In 1997, two additional classrooms and a library were added to the elementary school.<ref name="usd252.org">[http://www.usd252.org/olpe/ohs/ Olpe High School history] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812203757/http://www.usd252.org/olpe/ohs/ |date=2014-08-12 }}</ref>

===St. Joseph's Catholic School===
Prior to the 1950s there was no public high school in Olpe; area students attended St. Joseph's Catholic School. Olpe High School was built in the early 1950s. The first class graduated from Olpe Rural High School in 1952; however, the new building was then incomplete. That first year, the old St. Joseph's High School building was rented and classes were held there. Students began attending the newly constructed building the next year. Since then, it has housed kindergarten through sixth grade classes. After the 2012–2013 school year, Saint Joseph's Catholic School closed, due to the economy.<ref name="usd252.org"/>