The village is located in Schoolcraft Township approximately 13 miles (21 km) south of Kalamazoo on U.S. Route 131.

The village is named in honor of geographer, geologist, and ethnologist Henry Schoolcraft.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.98 square miles (2.54 km2), all land.

Euro-American settlement in the Schoolcraft area dates to 1828 (nine years before Michigan's admission to the Union), when Bazel Harrison moved his family from Ohio to present-day Prairie Ronde Township, becoming the first settler in the future Kalamazoo County.

[7] Territorial roads from Schoolcraft to the mouth of the Black River were approved in 1833 and to Edwardsville in 1834.

One road was to be built to Abscota (also found as Abscot), a post office in Calhoun County, Township 4 South, Range 7 West at the corners of Section 5, 6, 7, 8.

John Kelly and E.L. Brown of Kalamazoo and Salmon Walker of Calhoun County were appointed to oversee this route.

[8] The Schoolcraft home of Dr. Nathan Thomas served as a "station" on the Underground Railroad.

Dr. Thomas, the first doctor in Kalamazoo County and a Quaker who avidly supported and led abolitionist efforts in Michigan, first built the house in 1835 on the corner of Cass St. and Centre St.

Containing a rich and rare assortment of mesic forest plants and trees, the woods are the remnant of the Big Island on Prairie Ronde, an island of forest in the midst of prairie at the time of settlement.

[12] The Schoolcraft Ladies Library (at 163 Hayward St.), built in 1896, is also a state listed site.

The Ladies Library Association had been founded in 1879 to provide educational opportunities to women in the community (there were no state educational institutions in the area until Western Normal College, now Western Michigan University, was established in Kalamazoo in 1903).

Students in those grade levels do leave their classrooms for specials (physical education, art, computers, library skills, and music).

Schoolcraft Middle School – The Schoolcraft Middle School aims to prepare productive, respectful problem solvers for their next educational endeavor through delivering a challenging, integrated curriculum in a positive environment by a skilled staff.

Due to cooperation with other schools in Kalamazoo County, students also have the opportunity to attend classes at off-campus locations through programs such as the Kalamazoo Area Mathematics and Science Center, Education for Employment and Education for the Arts.