Woodstock appointed its first schoolmaster in 1690 and built a school in 1704, while the first school to serve the West Parish was constructed in 1734. Tradition holds that a red schoolhouse once stood on this site, but about 1873 it burned and was replaced by the present structure, always painted white, giving rise to the name Red-White School. By 1883, this was district eleven among Woodstock’s seventeen school districts. The building was used regularly until 1929, then only occasionally during the following decade before closing permanently about 1939. It was later used for a time by the Sunnyside Sunday School and then owned by the neighborhood mutual benefit society. In 1969, the Woodstock Historical Society acquired it as the town’s only one-room school still on its original site and not converted to other uses. Woodstock’s one-room schools were abandoned when students were consolidated at the Woodstock Elementary school in 1950.