schoolhouse
noun
school·house
ˈskül-ˌhau̇s 
: a building used as a school and especially as an elementary school
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Jenkins rallied the community to raise enough money to help build the Davidson Colored School, which opened in 1937, after a previous wooden schoolhouse in the Mock Circle area in Davidson burned down.
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Damenica Ellis, Charlotte Observer, 19 June 2025
File photo of a blackboard in a schoolhouse at the Carillon Historical Park in Dayton, Ohio.
—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
In Greenville, a one-room Chinese schoolhouse opened on a grassy knoll near the levee.
—Erika Hayasaki, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2025
One man not there was Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was using the schoolhouse as the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force.
—Anne Clifford, CNN Money, 8 May 2025
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Damenica Ellis, Charlotte Observer, 19 June 2025
File photo of a blackboard in a schoolhouse at the Carillon Historical Park in Dayton, Ohio.
—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
In Greenville, a one-room Chinese schoolhouse opened on a grassy knoll near the levee.
—Erika Hayasaki, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2025
One man not there was Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was using the schoolhouse as the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force.
—Anne Clifford, CNN Money, 8 May 2025
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“Schoolhouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schoolhouse. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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schoolhouse
noun
school·house
-ˌhau̇s
: a building used as a school
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