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History of Consolidated Schools Merging: From Rural One-Room Schoolhouses to Modern Educational Districts
The history of consolidated schools tells the story of how American education transformed from thousands of small, isolated one-room schoolhouses into the comprehensive school districts we know today. Between 1930 and 1970, the number of school districts in the United States dropped from approximately 130,000 to just 18,000 as communities consolidated operations to provide better educational opportunities, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics.
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