Editor’s note: Manteca Unified is marking its 50th year of unification. This is part of an occasional series on the history of local schools.Buses weren’t the preferred mode of transportation for rural kids to get to school back in 1870 when Rustic School was built along what is now Airport Way south of Manteca.The one-room school house had a barn in the back where students could stable their horses.Manteca Unified has secured an elementary school site nearby near Airport Way and Fig Avenue that will be named Rustic School when it is built to serve the growing neighborhoods south of the 120 Bypass.Rustic School opened in 1870 with 15 boys and 15 girlsRecords show in 1878 the school was valued at $1,000. The teacher was paid $65 a month.Rustic was closed due to rain several times.