Eerie photos of America's creepiest school emerge as haunted 1800s site prepares for students for first time in 60 YEARS

An abandoned schoolhouse built in the 1800s is reopening its doors to students.

The Garcia Grade School, located in the San Luis Valley in Colorado, was constructed as early as the 1860s, experts said.

Now the school, which hasn't been used as a classroom since 1963, is going to house students once more, as the local community rushes to save the building - and others like it - from ruin.

Eerie photographs of the school's exterior and interior captured a different era of learning.

The pictures showed crumbling walls with peeling paint, an antique scale, and a chalkboard that bore the faded scrawl of a student from decades ago. 

The Colorado school was built as early as the 1860s and is one of the last surviving buildings from that time in the local area

The Garcia Grade School closed its doors in 1963, and it has been vacant for decades

Remnants of the past were visible in the schoolhouse, including faint numbers written on a chalkboard

Various old items were found in classrooms, including old books and magazines and even a scale

The school is in the San Luis Valley, where many Hispanic settlers migrated to after the Mexican-American war

A sign, which looked like it could be half a century old, hung from the wall and proclaimed: 'Library Now Open.' 

Sketches done by young students, who are now probably in their 70s, adorned the walls of some classrooms.

Bookshelves were freighted with volumes of old encyclopedias with yellowed pages. Old copies of National Geographic and Time Magazine were discovered in a magazine rack.

The Garcia Grade School is a stirring reminder of bygone days, and its dusty bookshelves and cracked adobe exterior are evocative of a time when the town was just a Hispanic settlement. 

Following the Mexican-American war in 1848, Hispanic settlers migrated to the San Luis Valley, when the region was still a part of the New Mexico Territory.

Many of the buildings from that era have been lost to time, and the Garcia Grade School is one of the few that still stands. 

The school's original mud plaster is still intact, and it has a lava stone foundation, a common feature among the region's older buildings.

The floor's lowest layer has bark on the back of it, meaning that it was fashioned from a local tree.

Antique and vintage books lined the shelves of the the Garcia Grade School, which retains its original mud plaster

The school's lowest floor was made from a local tree, and old copies of magazines were found on shelves

Old copies of National Geographic and Time Magazine were found in a magazine rack

Water damage has caused cracks to form in the walls

Renovators have their work cut out for them- water damage has plagued the building and animals have burrowed into the foundation

Still, the school shows obvious signs of its age, and wresting the building from the clutches of time will be hard.

Over the decades, animals have burrowed deep into the building's foundation.

Water damage has harmed the deeper structure, causing the building's corners to lean outward, and posing a big challenge for renovators, who will have to figure out how to protect the adobe.

Close to the school's north door, the adobe is missing entirely- a precarious situation that could result in a collapse.

But all of the peeling paint, the caving ceiling, and rickety bookshelves aren't enough to deter the school's renovators.

Barbara Darden, an architect spearheading the building's overhaul, plans on adding a unisex and handicap-accessible bathroom to the school.

She is also considering using solar energy to power the building and taking steps to enhance the school's overall appearance.

'The buildings aren't what's important,' Darden told The Colorado Sun. 'It's the people and the culture, and the buildings tell that story, help interpret that story of a town or a community.'

Meanwhile, Michael Medina, an 89-year-old former student of the school, recalled to the publication about having 'at least one teacher and maybe two teachers who were very instrumental in seeing that we learned how to add, how to subtract, how to multiply, how to put a sentence together, which helped very much later on in life.'