A black and white photo postcard of Greenway School, circa 1920. The part of the building extending toward the photographer was Miss Geraldine K. Sullivan's first grade classroom in 1933. Jack Riddle and Mildred Milovich were two of her students that year. Annie Larkin Collection.

The Greenway school was named after John C. Greenway, a mining engineer responsible for building the Arizonan town Ajo. The general contractor for the school was John William Tucker who received the contract to build on December 17th, 1915. The schools construction began on March 31st, 1916 and the first of what would be three buildings was finished on October 19th, 1917. During that period, the building had an apartment for the schools custodian along with living spaces for the teachers. The Greenway School boasted twelve-foot-high ceilings with eight-foot-tall windows. The outer walls of the building were a foot thick. The school received several additions were made over the years, an auditorium and four extra classrooms were added in 1952, a modular library built in 1990 and the latest, a new cafeteria was added in 1995. Greenway remains open servicing the local community as a public school.

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