This was the Wessels School at the southwest corner of Rock City Road and Kelly Road. The school operated most likely through the 1954-55 school year. Near the end of its life, a new consolidated grade school was in the planning stages and Wessels School was only teaching 7th and 8th graders. This began in the 1953-54 school year (as reported by the Freeport Journal Standard on December 4, 1953), when the Illinois department of education issued a new rule prohibiting one instructor from teaching all 8 grades. German Valley country schools were consolidated, and the school board elected to send first through sixth graders to two other schools in German Valley. All three of the elementary school locations were one-room schoolhouses.

Voters were to decide on December 19, 1953 if a $170,000 bond would be issued to construct a new grade school in German Valley, which would replace the one-room schools. The referendum to issue the bonds passed by a vote of 145 to 5. Also on the ballot, a referendum to issue authority to construct the school, passed by a vote of 144 to 5. The final vote on the ballot was to approve the location of the building site on the north edge of German Valley, known then as the Hayunga Farm. This was also overwhelmingly approved, 113 to 34. The days of one-room schools in the German Valley area were over. The new grade school was constructed in time for the 1955-56 school year.

The Journal-Standard advertised a public auction of the school in its June 2, 1955 edition. The auction was scheduled for June 4th.