Online rural school related resources developed, produced, and maintained by cultural heritage institutions, universities, public radio stations, genealogists, and other independent researchers outside of the University of Northern Iowa.
- Country School Association of America
- Country School Journal
- Iowa Agriculture and Rural Life: A Bibliography of Materials Published between 1836 and 1945
- Iowa Genealogy: An Extensive Directory of Iowa Genealogy Records
- Iowa Rural Schools Museum
- Journal of Research in Rural Education
- One-Room Schoolhouse Center
- NPR's America's One Room Schools
- Iowa GenWeb Project
- Lucas County Genealogical Society: Early Schools of Lucas County, Iowa
- Preservation Iowa's Country School Initiative
- Iowa Heritage Digital Collections: Maps, Atlases, and Surveys
- State Historic Society of Iowa: Iowa's Historic Schools
- Iowa Public Television: Iowa's One-Room Schoolhouses
- Sheldall Schoolhouse, Hamilton County, Iowa (relocated to Story City, Iowa)
- Images of Iowa Schools from Musser Public Library's Oscar Grossheim Collection
- Upper Mississippi Valley Digital Image Archive
- "Teaching with Historic Places" from the National Park Service
- Little Red Schoolhouse, Cedar Falls, Iowa
- The Des Moines Register's Iowa Lost Schools project
- "A Collection Of Clues To America's Educational Past" by Elissa Nadworny - NPR, November 2014