From History of Placer County,
1882 Thompson and West p. 264
This was known as the Live Oak District ‘til 1860, when it received its present name Rock Creek School began according to the record, I 1859, but old residents say there was a school as early as 1857, taught in a building located on Missouri Flat. This was the first school house. It was a small building only 10x12 feet in size. In 1852 or ‘63 a new school house was built on Bald Hill near the Nevada road, 24x36 feet in size, with a seating capacity of forty-two. The furniture at present is nearly all patent. The district has a good library in fair condition. C. M. White is teaching the present term. There are thirty-six pupils enrolled three of whom are in the grammar grade. Frederick Dependiner acts as District Clerk.