What state did public schools start in?

If you are talking about one room school houses.... It was in the early 1700's

The first One Room School House looked like an Early Settler house. As time went on some buildings had gable roofs with straight lines. A number of influences gave them their characteristics. The brackets under the eaves are Italianate. The white trim which follows the eaves forms a pediment of a Greek Revival homes. The triangle over the Windows are a carpenter's version of the Gothic Revival.

The gable roof is the triangular upper portion of a wall at the end of a pitched roof. A bracket is a support for a shelf or other weight attached to a wall. A pediment is in classical architecture. It is a low pitched triangular gable above a portico. A portico is a roofed space, open or partly closed, forming the entrance of a house like a porch roof. There are many styles including the Greek Revival.

The time period that this was popular was from the early 1700's thru the 1900's.

People had to live close to the school because the children had to walk to school. There was only one room for all the children. School was very important to early settlers; therefore it was one of the first things they built. The schools were started for religious reasons, mainly so that children could read from the Bible.

*NEW PERSON* It started in Massachusetts around 1647