Reed School
Bringing to Life One-Room School Education
Reed School on the
day of its
grand
opening June 10, 2007 Reed School was built in 1915 in the town of Grant in Clark County and served as a one-room country school through the 1951 school year. The masonry building, with its wood-framed bell tower, replaced a wooden structure that burned in 1914. The school is typical of the more than 6,000 one-room schools that dotted the landscape of rural Wisconsin in the 1930s. The school provided a first- through eighth-grade education in a single classroom with only one teacher.
The site brings to life the public school education of rural students in the 1930s and 40s. While the school could represent any time period between its construction in 1915 and its closure in 1951, historic sites planners have decided the school's inaugural year will be interpreted as 1939. In subsequent years, the interpretive focus may progress into the 1940s, allowing for interpreting rural life during and after the World War II years.
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