The name of the school comes from� the Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church history .� ...."The Oak Grove's first meeting house was a log building on top of the hill beside the old road about 1/2 mile south of the present location.� Several years later a new building was constructed below the present building. After the closing of the Jackson County Baptist Institute they moved into one of the school buildings, which is the present location....

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....In 1925 the Jackson County Baptist Institute was moved from Egypt to Oak Grove.� That year Oak Grove's contribution to missions was $1,813.89, must of it of course, going to the school.

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Mary Bingham Coffey attended the Jackson County Baptist Institute.� When she was in the third grade she attended the Blackwater School which was a seven month school.� When the public schools closed many of the Blackwater students walked to Oak Grove for two more months.� She remembers they were just building the dorm when she stopped going.� The students took the lunches from home.� A Creech ran a store near the school and the teacher would let them go and get things for her.� She believes the teacher was Ms. Langdon.

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Mable Wyrick Bingham remembered walking from Highway 30 through the woods in Wyrick Hollow on a wagon trail to attend church at Oak Grove.