 The school replaced the former Lenox Academy building, which had served as the town's public high school since 1869 (and as a private high school since the academy's founding in 1803).This building underwent major renovations and additions in the 1940s and 1960s.The building was then used as school facilities for grades 4 through 6 until the 1970s, when (known as the Cameron School) it began to serve grades 2 through 5.