On September 30, 1905, Sam C. Elliott deeded four acres of land for a school, thus, School District No. 54 of Coleman County was begun.  The school was located about one and one-half miles north and one mile west of the present site of Shields.  The first teacher was a Miss Robinson; the second was Rufus Hensley.  Others who followed were Myrta Black, Laura Rutherford and Daisy Alford.  A school was started at Shields sometime later.

On September 9, 1910, Mr. N. B. Riddle deeded one and seven one-hundredths acres of land to the school.  The building on the Elliott farm was moved to this new plot, located on a public road about one mile west of the original location.  Some of the students attending school on the Elliott land began attending Shields school.  The Elliott land was deeded back to Sam C. Elliott by Coleman County Judge T. J. White, February 11, 1911.  The first school trustees were Isaac Self, Ed Campbell and W. H. Taylor.  Other men known to have served as trustees are W. C. Revel, N. R. Boyle, R. L. Riley, Charles Riddle, T. J. Dalton, Sr., J. W. Boyle, J. A. Scarborough, R. A. Glasscock, H. M. Patton, C. P. Elliott, S. H. Dalton, M. W. Cathey, F. H. McMinn, and R. F. Davis.  Most of these served several terms.  Isaac Self served seven terms.  Surely Sam C. Elliott and N. B. Riddle served as trustees for the school they gave land for.

The Elliott school consolidated with Brown Ranch, Gouldbusk, Hardin, Hill, Starkweather, and Voss, to form Mozelle Independent School District in 1935.

The first record of a teacher, Lester Whipple, was in 1912 - 1913.  Some of the teachers remembered by their students for this period, 1913 - 1921, are Nancy Cook, Estelle Scarborough (Mrs. Romie) Milligan, Oma Ward (Mrs. A. E.) Dalton, Henry Whipple, a brother to Lester, Helen Hays Freeman, Myriam Reed (Mrs. Chris) Walz, andLa Fern Smith. Miss Vida Jones, a daughter of W. C. Jones of the Shield Community, taught at Elliott for the school year of 1921 - 1922. Mrs. Mary (W. W.) Haygood taught the school year of 1922 - 1923.  There were two teachers for 1923 - 1924, Mary Hargett, and Hallie McElrath.  Miss Jennie Osborne was principal for the school years 1924 - 1926; Miss Robbie Cravens was the other teacher for these two years.

The original school building, built on the Elliott farm and moved to the Riddle farm, was sold June 28, 1926 to the highest bidder, Mrs. Ollie Pierce Weaver for $160.  The Weavers had the building moved across the fence and approximately one-fourth mile west.  Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Revel made this building their home until they retired and moved to Coleman.  After Billy Jack Wilson bought the land, he tore the school house (Revel home) down.

A new school building was erected the summer of 1926.  Miss Lee Oma Adian and Miss Valdo Cadenhead were the first teachers in the new building for the school year 1926 - 1927.  Miss Clytie Savage was principal, 1927 - 1928, and Miss Althea McKissick was elementary teacher.  The school term came to a sudden close when a tornado completely destroyed the “new” building the early part of April 1928.  The tornado also destroyed fifty-two homes across southern Coleman County.  A new school house was financed by $2,500 insurance and donations from the community amounting to $534.  This building served out the years for Elliott School, and was later moved to the Mozelle campus.

The teachers for 1928 - 1929 were Letie Hartman and Lucille Burkett. Miss Hartman as principal, and Miss Burkett as elementary teacher, first grade teachers 1928 - 1929 were Billy Riddle, Martha Dalton and Emma Riddle.  Miss Althea McKissick returned to teach from
1929 to 1931.  Miss Althea McKissick was principal, and Miss Minnie Wheatly elementary teacher for 1929 - 1930.  James Davis, Sammy Dalton, and Martha Mae Dalton were second grade teachers that year.  Misses Sue and Jewell Smith came to Elliott as teachers in the fall of 1931.  They both taught at Elliott for seven years.  Dorothy Lee Dalton is the only student known to have a perfect attendance for seven years.  For the school year of 1938 - 1939, Sue, the fifth, sixth, and seventh grades were transferred to Starkweather School.  It was
about this time the eighth grade began to attend school at Santa Anna.  Miss Jewell Smith, elementary teacher, and the first, second, third and fourth grades remained at Elliott for the school year of 1938 - 1939.  That was the last year school was conducted in the Elliott School District.  Jewell died October 20, 1980.  In 1983, Sue resides in Coleman.

When the Elliott school building was moved to Mozelle, the land where it had been since 1910 reverted back to the farm it came from.  T. J. Dalton, Sr., represented the Elliott School District on the Mozelle School Board from 1935 until his death in 1942.

Elliott School was the center of community activities from 1905 until it closed in 1939.  Political rallies, box suppers, school plays, and ball games were popular community activities.  A community Christmas Tree, Easter Egg Hunt, and April Fool Picnic was always enjoyed by young and “not so young.”  For a period of time a Sunday School was conducted on Sunday afternoons.