A two-room schoolhouse is a larger version of the one-room schoolhouse , with many of the same characteristics, providing the facility for primary and secondary education in a small community or rural area. While providing the same function as a contemporary primary school or secondary school building, a small multi-room school house is more similar to a one-room schoolhouse, both being architecturally very simple structures. While once very common in rural areas of many countries, one and two-room schools have largely been replaced although some are still operating. Having a second classroom allowed for two teachers to operate at the school, serving a larger number of schoolchildren and/or more grade levels. Architecturally, they could be slightly more complex, but were still usually very simple. In some areas, a two-room school indicated the village or town was more prosperous.
27-525: The Third Ward School (now known as Heritage School) was a two-room primary and intermediate grade school in Sheboygan, Wisconsin . Adult and children visitors can learn about the rules and curriculum of the 1800s and 1900s. Also located in the schoolhouse is an educational museum that features a variety of exhibits, artifacts and school memorabilia. The second Longfellow Elementary School, built in 1994 and itself replacing an 1890 building one block south,
54-486: A Roman Catholic parish was erected in the village in 1906. Today, St. Nicholas' Catholic Church has been recognized as a historic site . According to the United States Census Bureau , the village has a total area of 0.34 square miles (0.88 km ), all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 302 people, 120 households, and 82 families living in the village. The population density
81-534: A 46 ft × 30 ft (14.0 m × 9.1 m) two-room school, again with a movable wall between the two classrooms. These dimensions do not include the shared vestibule and coat rooms. A 1916 bulletin issued by the Oregon school superintendent included plans for six different variations of a two-room school house prepared by the Oregon chapter of the American Institute of Architects and
108-404: A feasibility study to restore the building as a Sheboygan Area School District "living school museum". Two-room schoolhouse A 1909 school planning guide from New Mexico suggests a school room be no bigger than 24 by 30 feet (7.3 m × 9.1 m) which would seat up to 40 students, as "a teacher having charge of more than this number cannot do satisfactory work - especially in
135-429: A female householder with no husband present, 0.8% had a male householder with no wife present, and 31.7% were non-families. 29.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 20% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.52 and the average family size was 3.17. The median age in the village was 38.4 years. 28.5% of residents were under the age of 18; 5.6% were between
162-420: A guide in 1914 with a floorplan of a similar two-room school with the same layout of a front entrance into a vestibule, two coatrooms off the vestibule, and a large room divided by a moveable wall into two 26 ft × 32 ft (7.9 m × 9.8 m) classrooms. Oklahoma presented a similar design in 1913 for a 23 ft × 30 ft (7.0 m × 9.1 m) one-room school house and
189-475: A private school in 1996 and later became a library for the larger Eleanor Roosevelt Learning Center which supports hundreds of home-schooled students. The image of two-room school is used as the logo for the Learning Center because it is an "important symbol of aspirational leadership in education" and the school provides "a sense of turning back to the successful basics." One notable two-room teacher
216-405: A rural school". The width was also the limit of acceptable daylighting from windows on the opposite wall. The guide recommended a vestibule between the entrance and the classrooms to separate the outdoor climate from the classrooms. Coatrooms off the vestibule allowed a place for wet clothes to dry while keeping their "disagreeable offensive odors" out of the classrooms. North Carolina issued
243-642: A school not only from one to two rooms, but also from two to four classrooms, three to six, or four to six or eight. These plans were designed to expand an architecturally simple small school at minimal cost with near complete re-use of the prior building. North Carolina is one state that had such plans. In the early 20th century, the United States Bureau of Education made scale models of one, two, and four room schoolhouses available to rural communities by parcel post . The models were sufficiently detailed that "any competent carpenter" could replicate
270-652: A single room in 1919 and expanded to two rooms in the 1990s. In 2019, it employed two teachers, two aides and a part-time principal to teach 19 students from kindergarten through Grade 4. In September of the same year, it celebrated one hundred years of continuous operation. In December 2019, the United States Naval Mobile Construction Battalion started a project to demolish and rebuild a two-room schoolhouse at Timor-Leste 's National Institute of Health in Dili . The project
297-546: A small rural school. Enrollment climbed again in the 1980s as parents sought to avoid problems with peer pressure and drugs in bigger schools. Enrollment climbed to 47 in 2014. After receiving funding in 2019 from a state grant for improving small schools, the school added a third classroom and performed other repairs and modernization of the school. The two-room Venice School in Tulare County, California , opened in 1892 and served farm families until 1957. It reopened as
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#1732787741253324-584: Is Bonnie Boggs who taught for 14 years in the two-room elementary school in rural Loma, Montana . One room was a classroom, and the other was a science lab and Bogg's innovative use of science in teaching other subjects earned her the National Science Foundation Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and Mathematics in 1995. Canada has been home to a number of two-room schools. In Hoggs Hollow , Toronto ,
351-474: Is adjacent to the building and helps to accent the changes in education that have taken place over the years. The Third Ward School was built in 1876 as a primary and intermediate grade school and then became the city's first kindergarten after the move of those grades to the 1890 Longfellow building. In 1918, it was converted to a "fresh air school", a new concept, providing education and nourishing meals for children with tuberculosis, until 1932. It then served as
378-749: The Baron Renfrew School was a two-room school that opened in 1925. It was named in honor of the Edward, then-Prince of Wales , and after King Edward abdicated it was renamed York Mills School. A new wing was added in 1950, and the school continued to operate until 1982. The building was demolished in 2004. In the Canadian province of Quebec , the Soulanges School in Saint-Télesphore is a two-room schoolhouse constructed with
405-474: The ages of 18 and 24; 26.1% were from 25 to 44; 17.5% were from 45 to 64; and 22.2% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the village was 52.6% male and 47.4% female. As of the census of 2000, there were 255 people, 103 households, and 77 families living in the village. The population density was 742.1 inhabitants per square mile (286.5/km ). There were 104 housing units at an average density of 302.7 per square mile (116.9/km ). The racial makeup of
432-467: The architecture departments of the University of Oregon and Oregon Agricultural College . One plan also featured two similarly sized classrooms, vestibule, coat rooms and the added amenities of an enclosed porch and a 88 sq ft (8.2 m ) library in the front and a wood shed attached to the back with a wood-fired heater for each classroom. South Carolina noted that school districts in
459-524: The entire building. The two room school affords for indoor toilets as the "second" library space can be used for a girls' toilet room (a boys' toilet would go under the entrance stairs). A two-room schoolhouse in Osgood, Ohio , designed by architect C. F. Bowdle of Piqua, Ohio , was cited in the October 1914 issue of Building Age magazine as an example of a "modern" school. To meet state building codes,
486-429: The entire foundation and exterior walls are made of masonry, with a roof of asbestos shingles. The simple design includes two 31 ft × 38 ft (9.4 m × 11.6 m) classrooms separated by the vestibule and coat rooms. This design included a rear vestibule and exit for each classroom. To facilitate expansion of schools associated with the growth of a community, plans were also developed to enlarge
513-577: The headquarters for the city's health department for around forty years. The schoolhouse was designed by Arvin L. Weeks, a 19th-century Sheboygan architect. Altered at several points, restrooms were first installed in the north half of the foyer in 1904. Interior walls were added in 1931. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. In 1983 a grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation provided funds for
540-587: The model in full-size. The program was designed to aid small districts that could not afford to pay architects to develop plans for schools with modern standards of "health and efficiency". In 1914, at the program's initiation, it was estimated that there had been 212,000 rural schools built in the United States, most of which had been planned without "any regard to light, ventilation, or sanitation". While many small schools were closed after consolidation into larger districts, some remained. A two-room school
567-451: The rooms with long hallway, with the vestibule, coatrooms, a library and teacher's office between the classrooms. A rear projection includes toilets and lab/shop spaces. A Minnesota design for rural schools gives special attention to minimizing heating duct length to a basement furnace with a compact design with the classroom, library, vestibule, and coatroom clustered together. This one-room school can be expanded to two rooms by mirroring
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#1732787741253594-417: The state that used a standard design from its bulletin, prepared by Clemson Agricultural College , would receive one-half of the construction cost from the state and county. South Carolina recommended one-room schools only if "after careful consideration, and after all efforts to maintain a two-room, two-teacher school have failed. Instead of adjacent classrooms, a California two-room school plan separates
621-410: The village was 100.00% White . There were 103 households, out of which 25.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.1% were married couples living together, 5.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 25.2% were non-families. 24.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 19.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size
648-410: Was 2.48 and the average family size was 2.92. In the village, the population was spread out, with 23.5% under the age of 18, 5.1% from 18 to 24, 27.8% from 25 to 44, 20.8% from 45 to 64, and 22.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.2 males. The median income for a household in
675-432: Was 888.2 inhabitants per square mile (342.9/km ). There were 121 housing units at an average density of 355.9 per square mile (137.4/km ). The racial makeup of the village was 98.3% White and 1.7% Native American . Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.3% of the population. There were 120 households, of which 30.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.8% were married couples living together, 6.7% had
702-509: Was finished on March 30, 2020. In the United States, many two-room schoolhouses are preserved and listed on heritage registers and/or serve as museums or converted to dwellings and other uses. These include: Osgood, Ohio Osgood is a village in Darke County , Ohio , United States. The population was 306 at the 2020 census . Osgood was founded in the 1880s. While its earliest settlers were primarily Protestants ,
729-523: Was operating in the farming community of Ellensburg, Washington , in 1987. The Damman School taught 27 children that year in two classes, those in Kindergarten through second grade in one classroom and those in third through sixth grade in the other. According to the district superintendent, who had attended the school herself, enrollment fell in the late 1960s to as low as four as parents felt their children would be socially disadvantaged by attending
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