The Sibley School was located at Osage Street and Falconer Street just North of the Sibley Cemetery. The earliest record of a School in Sibley was in 1847 and the school was located in a log structure. By the 1870s a new brick structure was built to replace the old log school. This school was partially destroyed by a tornado on April 18, 1880[1].
By the 1890’s a wooden frame building was built to replace the one room brick building. In the early 1900’s an additional room was added. This wooden frame structure was sold in 1938 and the original room of the structure was moved to Santa Fe Street.
A new two room brick building was built in 1939. The schools in North Eastern Jackson County were reorganized in 1951 and the Fort Osage School District was formed. In 1955 an additional two rooms were built on to the building and the school now began serving hot lunches.
At the end of the 1978 school year, the Sibley School was closed. The building and the property were purchased by Jackson County Parks and a museum for Fort Osage opened in 1980. After the construction of the Fort Osage Education Center, the old school building was demolished in the Fall of 2006.
[1] Fort Osage DAR, In The Beginning: How The Fort Osage Schools Began (Independence, MO: Arrow Printing Service, 1994), 259.