In 1871, the residents of Big Valley on the Lassen County side, petitioned the Lassen County Board of Supervisors for a school district there. While there was a public school in Adin, that was under the jurisdiction of Siskiyou County, as Modoc County had not yet been created. The Big Valley residents were included the Willow Creek Valley School District and that school house was nearly forty miles away. With that thought in mind, the petition stated, “It is frequently impossible for their children to attend school on account of high water, deep snows muddy roads, etc.” The petition was signed by seventeen residents and combined they had twenty children eligible for school. The Board obliged and created the Providence School District on November 10, 1871. A school house was built two miles south of Adin.
One person is under the impression that sometime, possibly in 1920s, that the school was moved to its current location. However, I am unable to locate any information on that event. If anyone cn shed some light on this, it would be appreciated
In 1953, the school was annexed to the Adin Joint Unified District. The school house then became the property of the Providence Farm Bureau and the farm bureau still owned it in 2002, but I do not know its current status.