schoolhouse
noun
school·house
ˈskül-ˌhau̇s 
: a building used as a school and especially as an elementary school
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As for the children, Flynn was one of just two students attending school on the island's K-8 schoolhouse.
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Steve Hartman, CBS News, 21 June 2024
The Church of Eternal Light is a small former schoolhouse in Bristol with a long relationship with spiritualism and paganism.
—Shahrzad Rasekh, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2024
The building functioned as a schoolhouse until the 1940s, when it was bought by a family who used the structure first as a home, and later an auto garage.
—Lucy Marques, Charlotte Observer, 14 June 2024
Hathaway’s voice echoed through the building at 1315 Division Street, which was mostly empty on Wednesday, but the facility constructed in 1877 sparkled with fresh paint and new glass imitating the schoolhouse’s original character.
—Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 24 Apr. 2024
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Steve Hartman, CBS News, 21 June 2024
The Church of Eternal Light is a small former schoolhouse in Bristol with a long relationship with spiritualism and paganism.
—Shahrzad Rasekh, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2024
The building functioned as a schoolhouse until the 1940s, when it was bought by a family who used the structure first as a home, and later an auto garage.
—Lucy Marques, Charlotte Observer, 14 June 2024
Hathaway’s voice echoed through the building at 1315 Division Street, which was mostly empty on Wednesday, but the facility constructed in 1877 sparkled with fresh paint and new glass imitating the schoolhouse’s original character.
—Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 24 Apr. 2024
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“Schoolhouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schoolhouse. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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schoolhouse
noun
school·house
-ˌhau̇s
: a building used as a school
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