[3] Technically it is not a one-room schoolhouse according to a Texas Monthly article by Katy Vine, as the original school building – still in use – does not hold the pre-Kindergarten classes.
Katherine Leal Unmuth of The Dallas Morning News stated that year that, because Divide ISD had such a small student body, it could more easily get an exemplary rating under TEA rules at the time compared to larger districts; due to differing demographics, Divide ISD could gain exemplary ratings by succeeding in three of 36 different tasks.
[4] Fred "Barney" Klein obtained the funds to establish the school to serve an area that became populated after the state government built the relevant section of Texas State Highway 41;[2] this school building opened in 1936, and it remained in the same location since.
[6] The district, about 340 acres (140 ha) in size, lacks centers of commerce and business and consists of ranchland.
[2] As of 2015[update] the district uses a converted limousine purchased from a buyer in Dallas as a school bus.