The first school was a small log cabin built six years after the first settlers arrived.  As the population increased the school district created sub-districts .  Each of these sub-districts had a one-room school where one teacher taught all the grades up to eighth grade!  At one time there were nine of the one-room school houses.

In 1898 Dover Public High School was built.  Seven students graduated in the first class in 1901.  Voters approved construction of the first central school building, which opened in 1909.  The four room brick building used as the high school had four more rooms added to back of the building in 1918.  When the high school out grew that building, a new high school was built and dedicated in 1923.  At that time Dover became a centralized school district.  Grade school classes were held in the old high school building.  That building is still standing today.  That is the building known as the Old Red Brick!  Today the Westlake School District has four elementary schools, an intermediate and middle school, and a high school.  The Red Brick currently is the home of the district's administration offices.