The Wiseville, or Paulington school,was a one-room school in the eastern part of Linville District. The school was located near the "Old Dutch" church on the Mountain Road north of Keezletown. The school is indicated but not named in Lake's 1885 Atlas of Rockingham County. The school took the place of an old log schoolhouse called the Armentrout school, a school which predated the public school system. In 1885 a new frame one-room school was built. This school operated until 1906, when the Mt. Tom school was moved about 1 1/2 miles north of Paulington and the students were sent to the Mt. Tom school. The only known teacher at Paulington was A. E. Templeman, who taught at the school during its last few years of operation.

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