The George W. Baker family settled near Robinson Peak in 1879.  In the early 1880’s a school was needed as there was none closer than Coleman.  On the Hamilton place, about two miles from the Bakers, was an old log cabin with a chimney, built and abandoned some years before, and there the school was begun.  Four families of children were near enough to go there - the two Bakers, the Hamiltons, the Turners, and the Needhams, with Mrs. Baker as teacher.  The opening had no door, the benches were logs, and the chimney furnished heat.  Cattle had used the cabin for a barn in cold weather, and with no way to keep them out, they still pushed in during blizzards.  The first to arrive each morning took the bucket to the branch for drinking water, and they cleaned the cabin the best they could.  Each family brought from home whatever books they had and the children did not mind that their school had a dirt floor and a dirt roof, that they had to walk two to four miles morning and afternoon, or that they must read the same books over and over.

The community at Robinson Peak grew, and it was decided that the deserted cabin on the Hamilton place was not satisfactory.  Baker donated the land for a school near the peak, and all the community gave money and labor to build it, the school being named Mount View.  Church services were held there as well, and when there was a death of a neighbor, the cemetery near the school was begun.

The Dodds family settled there in 1892 and their children went to school at Mount View.  The teacher, who paid eight dollars a month for room and board, often boarded with the Dodds.

In 1911, Mount View was designated District #40.  In 1919, part of Mount View consolidated with Anderson and part of Cotton to form a new Anderson School.  In 1925, Mount View was designated as a school in the Silver Valley District #8, and this part was consolidated soon after.

W. C. Rickard taught at Mount View in 1912 - 1913, assisted by Miss Gertrude Grady.  Students that year were: Dee Coleman, Theo and Austin Armstrong; Clovis, Carroll, Nellie, Alta May and Iva Baker; Lois Myrtle Burrow; Pearl, Ethel Lorena, and Arthur Burleson; Exie and Vada Cole; Opal Dudley; Fannie, Agnes May, Effie, Adam and Henry Halman; Lola, Walter, Clyde, and Arthur Honea; Willie P. James; John, Henry, Calvin, Owen, Cora, and Maggie Kerbow; Morris, George, Ruby and Rosella Lee; Albert and Annie Norris; Ruth, Sylvester and Troy Osteen; Exie and Lee Osborn; J. T., Jewel, Eldmidge and Daisy Paxton; Connie, Floy C., Selma and O. Rister; Leona, Clyde, Cecil and Carl Stovall; Robert, Virgil, Gladys, Myrtle, Maude, Florence, Minnie and Oda M. Taylor; Luther Wilson.