Iron Hill School 112C was one of the schools built in Delaware for Black children through philanthropist Pierre S. duPont's effort to equalize conditions and resources between Black and white community schools. Completed in 1923 at a cost of $9,000.00, it served African-American children in the Iron Hill area until educational segregation was abolished at this site in 1965, after duPont's wider school-building campaign from 1919 to 1928 financed more than 80 schools for African-American students in the state. Lessons included arithmetic, cursive writing, spelling, and Bible verses, one teacher worked through the grades in turn, some children warmed potatoes or cooked macaroni on the pot-bellied stove at lunchtime, and students joined other African-American schools for Field Day competitions in track, baseball, and dodge ball. The school is the only intact and well-preserved survivor of this era in Delaware. Since 1969 the building has housed the Delaware Academy of Science's Iron Hill Museum, where the original structure was carefully preserved during its conversion into one of New Castle County's oldest science museums. The museum has hosted over half a million school children and is restoring the building to highlight its history as a segregated school while also documenting former students' experiences and interpreting the wider Iron Hill community, which began after William McConaughey brought immigrant and African-American mine workers to Iron Hill in 1873 and many families remained after the ore ran out in 1891.