The community of Rochester Hills is very involved with the school system. And Rochester Community Schools has a very interesting beginning. In 1952, eight one-room school houses in the area were gathered and Rochester Community Schools began. These evolved as more children went to school, from grades 1-8 all in one room to several k-12 schools. Still, one of the one-room schoolhouses still stands as a museum, the Stoney Creek one-room schoolhouse.The schoolhouse stands in the historic district of Rochester and Rochester Hills, Van Hoosen Farms. 2nd graders in Rochester Community Schools every year take a field trip to the schoolhouse and are taught for a day as if it was the 1800s. Parents sew them costumes, and the children make candles and learn on chalkboards.
Pictured here is the schoolhouse that 2nd graders come to visit, above the second graders in their costumes.