Subscription school

[1] Because parents did not have to pay when their children were unable to attend, this model was well-suited to pre-industrial rural life in which children were often required to do farm labor for long periods of the year.

[2] "Locally organized and informally governed," a subscription school was typically a one-room affair with a single teacher.

[7] In Jefferson City, Missouri, Black veterans of the Civil War founded the Lincoln Institute as a subscription school in 1866.

Subscription schools for Black students in the South continued well beyond the end of the Reconstruction era.

[7] In some parts of the United States such as Oklahoma, subscription schools continued to be established into the early 20th century.