In early 1916 the Racine County Board of Supervisors planned a Racine County Training School for Teachers. The Village of Union Grove offered the proposed school the use of two rooms in its new high school and the village graded school for practice teaching. The County Board accepted the offer and Union Grove became home for the school.
In fall of 1917 the Kenosha County Board of Supervisors, which also hoped to establish a training school, visited the school. Soon afterward the two counties sponsored the Racine-Kenosha Joint County Training School for Teachers. Enrollment increased and larger quarters found. Plans were drawn for the construction of a building that was completed in the fall of 1919. A dormitory was needed and in the summer of 1922 students occupied Storms Hall. On November 30, 1922, a fire partially destroyed the school building. The school moved into the new dormitory while the school building was repaired. In the following decades the school thrived, so that by 1967 it was the largest county teachers college in the state with a faculty of 9, and 140 students. Like other teacher training colleges in Wisconsin, the Racine-Kenosha Joint County Training School for Teachers underwent several name changes:
| 1916-1923 |
Racine-Kenosha Joint County Training School for Teachers
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| 1923-1927 |
Racine-Kenosha County Rural Normal School
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| 1927-1955 |
Racine-Kenosha County Normal School
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| 1955-1971 |
Racine-Kenosha County Teacher College
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