Although the Boone County Interim Report, Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory, December 1982, lists twenty schools in Boone County, attrition over the past years has left only ten schools standing. Out of these ten schools, one is a barn, two are not one-room schools, and six have been converted to private homes with additions. Howard school is the only one-room school house that remains in a deteriorated but untouched state. A one-room school house is a building made for educational purposes that have only one story and one classroom. John B. Howard, who was an early settler of Boone County, acquired the land where Howard School was built in 1835. Due to the lack of records for Howard School, no one knows for sure when it was built, but the indications of a frame school building on the land prior to the building of Howard school indicated the date was around 1885.

One of the most important unresolved issues is the fact that no one knows for sure when Howard School House was built. If anyone has any information that pertains to the date Howard School was built, please contact William Coan at wacoan@sbcglobal.net.