The Crestwood Local School District officially formed in 1951, when the Mantua Local School District, which had formed just three years earlier in 1948 when the Mantua Township and Mantua Village districts merged, consolidated with the Shalersville Township Schools to create what was initially known as the Mantua–Shalersville Local School District. Three years later in 1955, the school board voted to rename the district Crestwood, after the telephone exchange that was used in the area at the time ("Crestwood 4" or 2-7-4). Crestwood High School opened in 1956, replacing Mantua Village School as the high school. Less than 10 years later in 1964, the Hiram Local School District was added to the district, though several families in the eastern part of Hiram Township petitioned to be added to the adjacent
James A. Garfield Local School District. The addition of Hiram expanded the district to its current size, which covers an area of roughly including the villages of
Mantua and
Hiram, all of
Mantua and
Shalersville townships, and most of
Hiram Township. After the consolidations and new buildings, the Mantua Village School,
Mantua Center School, Shalersville School, and Hiram School remained in use as elementary schools. In the early 2000s, the district replaced these schools with two consolidated facilities. The new buildings were funded by the Ohio School Facilities Commission and a successful voter bond issue. The new buildings, Crestwood Primary School for grades Pre-K–3 and Crestwood Intermediate School for grades 4–6, opened in August 2004. After the new buildings were completed Shalersville and Mantua Center Schools were purchased by their respective township governments, while the district sold the Mantua Village and Hiram Schools. Mantua Village School was purchased by
University Hospitals and converted into the UH Mantua Health Center. Hiram School was purchased by a private owner, but fell into disuse and was razed in 2010. == Schools ==