The first community-funded public school in the village of Herndon Post Office for white children was constructed in 1868 on Center Street. The school opened two years before the founding of Fairfax County Public Schools, and was absorbed into the school system’s Dranesville School District in 1875. After the incorporation of the Town of Herndon in 1879, the Town of Herndon School Board was formed. The town’s school trustees operated two schools, one for white children and one for African-American children at Oak Grove. When the consolidated Fairfax County School Board formed in 1922, the town’s schools came under the management of the consolidated board. The Town of Herndon retained its School Board, but only one member of the board had a voting seat on the Fairfax County School Board. In 1952, when Fairfax County changed to the executive form of county government, the Town of Herndon lost its seat on the Fairfax County School Board.