Located approximately five miles south of the town of Mineral, the ca. 1925 Cuckoo Elementary School is a rare surviving two-room schoolhouse in Louisa County and the surrounding region. The modest, vernacular frame building served as an elementary school for rural African American students during the era of racial segregation in Virginia’s public schools, housing grades one through seven until its closure following a fire in 1955. The Cuckoo Elementary School epitomizes the small one- and two-room schoolhouses common throughout rural Virginia communities from the 1870s into the mid-20th century, and it remains an important link to Black history and culture in rural Louisa County and to the broader legacy of racial segregation in Virginia’s public education during that period. The Cuckoo Elementary School is nominated under the African American Schools in Virginia Multiple Property Documentation Form.