McDermitt School District
school district in Malheur County, Oregon
McDermitt School District No. 51, also known as Malheur County School District 51, is a school district in Malheur County, Oregon. The district's official address is that of the Malheur Education Service District, located in Vale, Oregon.
A district with no employees, it sends all of its students to McDermitt Combined School in McDermitt, Nevada and Oregon, a school operated by the Humboldt County School District. Circa 2022, around 80% of the McDermitt district's 64 residents are in the ranching industry. The McDermitt district gives money to the Humboldt County district.
Circa 2006, 16 students, of all grade levels, lived in the district. In 2006 the district possessed a school building that was no longer used. About 33% of Malheur County in the southern part goes to McDermitt. As of 1965 the district's territory had more than 2,815 square miles (7,290 km2) of area.
“McDermitt School District” enters the record as school district in Malheur County, Oregon. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what McDermitt, School and District can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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