Black Forest School, Historic school building in El Paso County, United States

Black Forest School is a one-room log schoolhouse at 32 by 22 feet, built from Ponderosa logs with a red brick chimney. A 1925 front addition held a cloakroom and coal storage. The wooden floor and all but two original logs survive, and the interior is furnished with a pot-bellied stove, chalkboard and desks.

Black Forest residents supplied the land and Ponderosa logs and built the one-room schoolhouse in 1920-1921; it was the area's first public building. Classes for grades one to eight began in fall 1922, and a 1925 front addition held a cloakroom and coal. The school closed in 1945, consolidating with rural schools such as Forest View, five miles southeast.

The building hosted Sunday church services and a summer Bible school, and in 2012 a 90th anniversary celebration featured hopscotch, tug of war and jump rope. The Friends of the Black Forest Log School, incorporated in 2009, now organizes pot lucks, story times and holiday events there.

The log schoolhouse stands in Black Forest, about 10 miles northeast of Colorado Springs. The Friends of the Black Forest Log School give tours on Thursdays from 12 to 3 in summer; the building is otherwise closed. The one-room interior and its 1925 cloakroom addition are small, and the entrance is at the front.

From 1947 to 1977, the building was converted to a residence for a county road commission worker, during which indoor plumbing and electricity were finally installed. This unusual repurposing shows how the structure adapted to serve different needs as the community evolved.