School District History
In 1892, the first school was located on the Southwest 1/2 of Section 16. The first building was moved to Southeast 1/4 of Section 28 on the Martin Murphy farm. The first teacher was Mrs. Leisure. The school was moved several times and finally into Bordulac in 1894. The new schoolhouse which was built is the old town hall now. Arthur Lowden was the first teacher in the town hall, and Mrs. Morris.
In 1907 the township consolidated and built a two story brick school building in 1909. There were five classrooms, a laboratory, a library and a full basement. Five teachers were employed. On Christmas morning 1929 this school burned. In 1930 a $40,000 modern brick structure was erected, the best in the county at that time, having a large auditorium and gymnasium. This school burned in 1971. A new school was ready for occupancy in the fall of 1971. The Bordulac school district was dissolved by process of annexation in September 1981. The properties were divided between Kensal and Carrington.
The 1908 school board was composed of O.C. Murphy, president, W.H. Sutherland, clerk, Hope DeBolt and Angus Ferguson. The last school board was composed of Gene Doeling, Maurice Carr, Caroline Wolf, and Helen Rosenau, clerk.
The 1980 eighth grade class of 5 students was the last to be graduated from Bordulac. The first graduate of Bordulac High School was James Morris, who became a lawyer and went on to be Chief Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court. R.P. Groves was his high school teacher. In 1976 there was an all school reunion in Bordulac. In 1908 there were 50 student, 1958- 100 students, 1971- 41 students, 1977- 28 students and 1978- 24 students.
At one time high school students came from Rose Hill, Bucephalia, Melville, and some from Edmunds to attend school.
Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 178