The Little Red Schoolhouse is a historic
one-room school
One-room schools, or schoolhouses, were commonplace throughout rural portions of various countries, including Prussia, Norway, Sweden, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Spain. In most rural and s ...
house located a few miles northeast of
Nogales, Arizona, in the community of
Beyerville. Opened in 1921 to serve the children of local farmers and ranchers, the Little Red Schoolhouse is the only one remaining of approximately two dozen red schoolhouses built in the
Santa Cruz River valley in the 1920s.
Next to the historic Little Red Schoolhouse is the modern Little Red Schoolhouse elementary school, a larger K–8 facility that replaced the original schoolhouse.
File:Plaque Little Red Schoolhouse Beyerville Arizona 2015.JPG, A plaque at the front of the Little Red Schoolhouse.
File:Little Red Schoolhouse Beyerville Arizona 2014.JPG, The modern facility next to the historic schoolhouse.
File:Little Red Schoolhouse Class Beyerville Arizona 1921.JPG, The students and teachers of the Little Red Schoolhouse in 1921.
See also
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Little Red Schoolhouse (Scottsdale, Arizona)
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The Little Outfit Schoolhouse
The Little Outfit Schoolhouse is a ranch school that was built in 1940 in southeastern Arizona. It is located on the Little Outfit Ranch in San Rafael Valley, about ten miles east-southeast of Patagonia, in Santa Cruz County, which borders Mexic ...
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Ranch school
References
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Ranch schools
Schools in Santa Cruz County, Arizona
School buildings completed in 1921
1921 establishments in Arizona
History of Santa Cruz County, Arizona
One-room schoolhouses in Arizona