The School Act of 1829 created the Stoney Creek School District, and Fractional School No. 1 was constructed in 1848. Like one-room schoolhouses across the country, it originally served children of varying ages and grades, from elementary through high school. This changed in 1931, when high school students began attending nearby Rochester High School. The school was attended by two prominent Michigan women, the influential surgeon Bertha Van Hoosen and her niece Sarah Van Hoosen Jones, an agriculture expert and author. In 1952, an addition was built to accommodate a growing population of elementary students, but later that year the school closed permanently when the Stoney Creek School District was annexed to that of Rochester.