Facade	Left Rear Oblique	Main Entrance	Entrance Door Detail	Interior Classroom
Interior Window Detail	Outbuilding Privy

(Seaside Colored School) Seaside School is historically significant for its association with the education of black Edistoians from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. At least one and sometimes two school buildings have been located on its site for over one hundred years, perhaps since 1865. The present structure, built ca. 1931, is architecturally significant as an example of a schoolhouse used by rural black South Carolinians into the 1950s. The school is a two-room frame building typical of those built throughout rural South Carolina from ca. 1910 until ca.1940. The rectangular building is one-story, on a low brick pier foundation, with a lateral gable roof of V-crimped metal and weatherboard exterior siding. Rafter ends are exposed at the main body and at the small shed porch protecting the paired entry doors. One original five-panel door remains. The school has been vacant since 1954, except for brief periods of residential tenant occupancy. Seaside School is said by many of the older residents of Edisto Island, black and white, to be the oldest black school on the island, and is one of only three remaining historic schools on Edisto Island, of at least eight that have been documented on the island in the twentieth century. Listed in the National Register June 17, 1994.

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