Rapp School

Osage City, Kansas

The old Rapp schoolhouse is one of the few, if not the only, one-room eight grade schoolhouses in Kansas that still has its original desk and textbooks. Because of its uniqueness, its location near the Santa Fe Trail, and the special place it has in the hearts of its neighbors and former students, it has been listed as a Kansas State Historic site and placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The first school at the site was a one-story wooden building, finished in 1871, being built at a cost of approximately $175. Fifty seven years later, in 1929, the present brick building was built. Because Rapp School is completely intact as it was in the 1930’s, present day students and their teachers can come and spend a day at the one-room school just as it was operated at that time. Period curriculum materials, including standardized achievement tests, can be used in lessons taught.

If you wish to visit the Rapp School, schedule an event there or arrange to have an elementary class spend a morning there, please contact:

Rapp School Preservation Assoc.
22310 S. Carlson Rd.
Osage City, KS 66523
785-528-3445