Two-room school

Having a second classroom allowed for two teachers to operate at the school, serving a larger number of schoolchildren and/or more grade levels.

Coatrooms off the vestibule allowed a place for wet clothes to dry while keeping their "disagreeable offensive odors" out of the classrooms.

To meet state building codes, the entire foundation and exterior walls are made of masonry, with a roof of asbestos shingles.

These plans were designed to expand an architecturally simple small school at minimal cost with near complete re-use of the prior building.

[4]: 461 In the early 20th century, the United States Bureau of Education made scale models of one, two, and four room schoolhouses available to rural communities by parcel post.

[5]: 59  The program was designed to aid small districts that could not afford to pay architects to develop plans for schools with modern standards of "health and efficiency".

In 1914, at the program's initiation, it was estimated that there had been 212,000 rural schools built in the United States, most of which had been planned without "any regard to light, ventilation, or sanitation".

Enrollment climbed again in the 1980s as parents sought to avoid problems with peer pressure and drugs in bigger schools.

It reopened as a private school in 1996 and later became a library for the larger Eleanor Roosevelt Learning Center which supports hundreds of home-schooled students.

[12] [13] In December 2019, the United States Naval Mobile Construction Battalion started a project to demolish and rebuild a two-room schoolhouse at Timor-Leste's National Institute of Health in Dili.

[14] In the United States, many two-room schoolhouses are preserved and listed on heritage registers and/or serve as museums or converted to dwellings and other uses.