It was then turned over to the Ourant School Memorial Association which maintains the property and currently awards a scholarship to students in the area.

[2] The schoolhouse still operates in an educational sense, as each spring a class of second graders spends a day in the one-room setting.

[3] The schoolhouse is a simple building constructed of whitewashed boards on a sandstone slab foundation.

The entrance is contained in a covered porch with four support posts lining the front facade.

The interior of the schoolhouse is furnished with pieces from the 1870s, including the iron worked legs on the oak-top school desks and the large potbelly stove in the center of the room.