 The children of Tõstamaa have been schooled for more than three centuries.Today, the school has a faculty of about twenty-five, who teach about 260 students in the primary and secondary classrooms.Events in the history of the manor schoolhouse

1242 First surviving written notes about the present area of Tõstamaa, then situated in Saare Lääne (Insular–West) diocese
1534 First recorded mention of Tõhela, Ermistu, Pootsi, Liu, and Värati
1553 First recorded mention (for socage service) of Tõstamaa (Testamaa) bishop's manor, then belonging to Koonga administrative district
1624 Helmersen family acquires Tõstamaa manor
1665 Pärnu town buys Kastna Manor from Meelius family
1680 Tõstamaa Parish founded
1684 Pootsi, Seli, and Tõstamaa manors nationalized
1720 The Helmersens recover the nationalized manor
1763–1768 Present Tõstamaa church built
1790 Tõstamaa Manor pawned to Polish chamberlain Lilienfeldt for a term of 70 years
1804 Construction of Tõstamaa manor house begun
1819 Communes of Tõstamaa, Seliste, Pootsi, and Kastna founded by the manors
1831 At public sale, Tõstamaa Manor sold to Von Holstein, who earns the epithet, "the foolish baron" (his son August will be called "the mad baron"; his grandson Alexander, "the wise baron")
1845–1848 71% of the people living in Seli and Tõstamaa become orthodox; over the course of half a century, four orthodox congregations—Seli, Pootsi–Kõpu, Tõhela–Murru, and Kastna—are founded
1858 Maydell becomes official owner of Pootsi manor
1876–1877 Tõstamaa manor rebuilt
1921–1922 Tõstamaa school moved into the manor house; Pootsi school, into the bailiff's office
1921 Parcelling out of land in Tõstamaa and Pootsi parishes begun
1926–1945 A school of home economics operated in Tõstamaa
1927 A new townhouse built in the center of the commune in Ermistu
1939 As German Balts settle elsewhere, the Maydell family leaves Pootsi
1940–1944 World War II and subsequent arrests reach Tõstamaa
1944 In September, people begin to flee to Sweden