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schoolhouse

[skool-haus] / ˈskulˌhaʊs /


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I grew up in eastern Kentucky and attended grade school in a four-room schoolhouse without indoor plumbing that had a potbelly stove for heat in the winter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

Lessons were taught in a small schoolhouse set on a bucolic campus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

Kapisillit's red wooden schoolhouse has a bell, library and Soviet-era hunting rifle to fend off polar bears.

From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026

“Parents’ fundamental right to raise their children according to their faith doesn’t stop at the schoolhouse door,” said Mark Rienzi, president of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2026

At the schoolhouse we had a time toting the cage up the outside steps that led backstage.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

One of my parents is an IU alum, but more than that, we were all born in Indiana, flat land of cornfields and quarries, churches and schoolhouses, often the punchline of other states' jokes.

From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2023

Online learning played a major role, but students lost significant ground even where they returned quickly to schoolhouses, especially in math scores in low-income communities.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2022

“It sounds so corny, but almost immediately, it was no more gothic churches, no more electronic music. It was guitars and it was schoolhouses and ‘Little House on the Prairie.’”

From New York Times ● May 11, 2022

Often called “agents,” these operators used their homes, churches, barns, and schoolhouses as “stations.”

From National Geographic Kids ● Jan. 31, 2022

What passed for public school at the time was a haphazard assortment of locally run one-room schoolhouses and overcrowded urban classrooms scattered around the country.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell


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