one-room school

noun, N Amer. esp. hist., a school in which all grades are taught by one teacher in a single classroom (“one room schoolhouse” COD); see also variations on ‘one-room school’

“Our school on the farm was a one-room school. We had only six or eight students in the whole school. And one teacher covered grades one to eight.”

“We’d play outside, and we’d get our mitts soaking wet with snow and whatever, and so the smell of those cooking on the stove … Yeah, it was pretty cool going to a one-room school. And it was sort of the end of an era when we went.”

“Now that was in the days when they taught them in the little one-room schools.”

“The kids went to the one-room school that was right over here on the corner.”

“So there was a lot of one-room schools, and I don’t remember, you can ask someone the number, but I’m sure there was around twenty schools.”

“At one time I think there was fourteen one-room schools on the Island, before my time, but it’s recorded that there was fourteen one-room schools.”

“You went to high school too in the one-room school, at one time.”

“I have nothing bad to say about a one-room school. After you got let’s say grade four or higher, if you got a little bit ahead, the teacher would get you to help a kid that was a year or two below you and help nurture them along a little too.”

“At one time there was fourteen one-room schools on the Island. And every year there’d be a dozen teachers come to the Island, and the first month they’d be here there’d be a lineup of young lads to take the teacher out.”

“There was fourteen one-room schools at one time on the Island. And you know I always said that was the only new blood that came to the Island.”

“Grade one children with grade three children, there’s just a whole, huge level of difference there. I mean, we got rid of one-room schools, thank goodness.”

“It was just a one-room school, of course.”