Elementary school students attended one-room schoolhouses scattered throughout the town before Monroe built its first…More modern school building in 1936. Monroe Consolidated School had classrooms for grades one to eight, a library, a gymnasium, central heat and flushable toilets. The building project cost a total of $94,000, according to the Monroe Historical Society. The town's seven one- and two-room schoolhouses were auctioned off to raise funds for class materials for the new school.</p> <p>It was since renamed Monroe Elementary School. Debra Kovachi is the principal of what is now a grade K-4 school.</p>