Leedy School, District #27, (also called Live Oak), was in the Live Oak Community where Tom Kingsbery’s home now stands (1983).  Sometime before 1885, T. C. Leedy donated 5 acres of land for a school site.  A large one room structure was soon erected which served grades one through seven or eight with one teacher for all grades.  The large building was heated by one big wood-burning stove and the students had to take turns sitting by the stove in order to stay almost warm.  Water was supplied from an underground cistern and drawn up in a galvanized bucket.  Everyone drank from the same dipper.

Miss Nellie Blackburn was the first teacher.  Other teachers were Thomas Holmes, Mrs. Erin Putnam, Mr. Stone, Henry Campbell (1895 - 1997), Mrs. Pritchet (H. W. Kingsbery’s sister -1900), Miss Mayme Baxter (1902 -1903), Mrs. Elizabeth Hale (drove several miles to school each day in a topless buggy), Miss Elizabeth Malsby, Miss Delma Greenwood, Florence Jones and Mr. McCorkle (a Baptist preacher, who taught three years).  Miss Ethel Hemphill and Sue Phillips were there when an extra teacher was added.

Some of the families whose children attended Leedy School were: Newman, Kirkpatrick, Ferguson, McClure, Collins, Kingsbery, Harper, Martin, Lamb, Caton, Goodson, Williams, Hudson, Stewardson, Smith and Wallace.

In 1924, the school was moved from the original site to a five acre plot purchased from Upton Henderson, located on the Whon Road just below the Curtis Collins place.  The school continued here for approximately 22 years with as many as four teachers at one time.  Mrs. Lucile Lancaster Carter was probably the last teacher.  When Leedy was consolidated with Santa Anna Independent School District, the building was moved to Santa Anna and used for classrooms.