Constructed by 1872 the District No. 5 School is the best example of the remaining one-room educational facilities in Alfred. Located in the settlement of North Alfred, the schoolhouse and woodshed/outhouse is situated on a grassy lot surrounded on three sides by stone walls at the northern edge of the rural village. Last used as a school in 1921, the District #5 School has also functioned as a domestic residence, club house and community hall through the 1990s. Recent restoration projects have focused on removing interior elements associated with these later uses and restoring the school to its historic configuration and function. The District #5 School was listed in the National Register at the local level of significance for its association with patterns of rural schooling in nineteenth -and twentieth-century Maine and as a good example of a type of educational facility that was once common throughout the state.