The first Redwire School was erected in 1910, and was designated District #51.  This school was destroyed by a tornado a few years later, and a second building of solid concrete was then erected.  The walls were about a foot thick and the remains still stand (1983).  It was located on the William Day Ranch, which was enclosed with a barbed wire of reddish color.  Some say the wire was painted red, but others contend that the wire was not galvanized and rusted to the red color.  At any rate, the Day pasture came to be called the Red Wire Pasture, from which the school took its name.  About 1905, the Day Ranch began to be divided into farms and several schools were located on the old ranch.  The Redwire School was one of those erected to serve the needs of the new settlers in the area.  Redwire School was one of four schools that consolidated in 1935 to found Leaday School District #29.