The period of the 19th and 20th centuries in Croatian history can be characterized as a period of unrest and awakening of national consciousness. Then there were changes in the government, certain political movements were founded, but also numerous reforms that also affected the education system. This paper attempts to describe chronologically the development of education in the area of the settlement Staro Petrovo Selo in the 19th and 20th centuries. The history of the settlement, which dates back to the Middle Ages, is briefly presented. The studied data related to schooling are distributed according to different historical phases of the two mentioned centuries. The paper also describes certain interesting facts about the school itself, the school conditions of that time, and the life of teachers. Furthermore, the development of education in the places where the district schools of Ivan Goran Kovačić's home school in Stari Petrovo Selo are today: Tisovac, Godinjak, Donji Crnogovci and Štivica are also briefly shown. Also, the development of religious education in the area of the settlement is described. Data on religious education, for which the priests and nuns of the time were responsible, are specifically mentioned. The work also contains photos of school periods from the second half of the 20th century and one photo of the old school building.