Notable Students of One-room Schools
- Herbert Hoover, US President
- Robert Menzies, the longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia - school at Jeparit, Victoria
- Hazel Miner, who froze to death in a spring blizzard in Center, North Dakota in March 1920, but saved her younger brother and sister by covering them with her own body
- Joyce Carol Oates, the Pulitzer-prize-winning writer, who attended a one-room schoolhouse in upstate New York
- Alan B. Shepard, Jr., the first American in space and one of only twelve astronauts to have walked on the moon, attended a one-room schoolhouse in East Derry, New Hampshire.
- Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia co-founder
- Laura Ingalls Wilder, who later dramatised her experiences in one-room schoolhouses as both student and teacher in Little House on the Prairie and other children's novels
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