Although it has not functioned as a school for many years, the Wolfe’s Neck school - now the Wolfe's Neck Club - is one of a few Freeport one-room school house buildings still standing. It last served as a neighborhood school in the 1930s, having been replaced by larger school buildings constructed closer to the center of town.
From the late 1700s through to the 1930s, Freeport schools were situated convenient to the neighborhoods they served. At the height of their era, Freeport operated seventeen neighborhood schools. Some of these were built as school buildings, while others were existing structures converted to serve the purpose. Over the course of its history, the town of Freeport assumed greater supervision and responsibility for the schools from local residents which brought more uniform structure and operation to the educational system.
At one time another school, the Litchfield School, served pupils from the upper district on Wolfe’s Neck. According to a long-time resident who was interviewed in the 1950s, pupils at that school were known as the “up-alongers,” while pupils here at the Wolfe’s Neck School in the lower district were the “down-alongers.” It was said that “there used to be some royal battles when they got together.”