America's One-Room Schools
Nebraska School Shrinks to the Point of Closure()
July 18, 2006 There were just three students at the Glen School in Sioux County, Neb., during the spring of 2005. Now the one-room school is closed, the victim of a declining area population.
Students Blossom in the Desert()
May 30, 2006 There are just 11 students at California's Death Valley Elementary, one full-time teacher and one teaching aide. The small-school environment helped one pupil overcome speech and language delays, and many of her classmates are working above grade level.
Growth Threatens Future of N.H. School()
April 3, 2006 Only three one-room schools are left in New Hampshire — all in very small towns. The oldest of these schools, built in 1780, is in Croydon, where residents worry that a growing population will spell the end of the school.
'Old Hawaiian' Life Fading with Loss of Maui School()
February 28, 2006 The last one-room school in the state of Hawaii closed in 2005, just a few weeks before the school year began. There had been a school in the village of Ke'anae, on the north coast of Maui, for 96 years.
Students Flourish in Gold Creek's One-Room School()
January 30, 2006 Gold Creek, Mont., has no stores, gas stations or bars, and its one church is closed. But it is rich in grazing land, and it still has a one-room school that is turning out above-average students.
Maine School Binds Isolated Island Together()
December 23, 2005 Monhegan Island, off the state's central coast, has only 50 year-round residents. Monhegan Island School has seven students this year, ages five through 12.
One-Room Schools Holding on in Rural America()
December 22, 2005 One-room schools still exist in America. They are a legacy of a less mobile, more rural time in American history. In 1919, there were 190,000; now there are fewer than 400 left.
