 According to a booklet compiled in 1923 and recently reprinted, the rural schools surrounding Norcross were Beaver Ruin with 60 students, Glover with 172, Mechanicsville School with 87, and Pittman with 60.Crabapple School, which was located at Pinckneyville, had apparently closed earlier.In 1933, a report printed in "Flanigan's History, Volume I" stated, "Norcross has three buildings valued at $60,000, and used thirteen teachers.