Schools

Drain's first school district was organized in 1861, eleven years before the town was established.  This became Oregon School District No. 22.  Almost 140 years later, the North Douglas School District No. 22 still serves the residents of the community.

The Drain Academy was built in 1883.  The I.O.O.F. purchased the building in 1893 and the Central Oregon Normal School was established.  The north wing was added on in 1905 as student attendance had grown to 150.  The school closed in 1908, and moved to Monmouth in Polk County.

The elementary and middle school now occupy the site where the original Normal School was built.