Community Independent School District

The district began as a rural answer to a state rule. After the Wilmer-Aikin Act passed, the county school board told six southeast Collin districts in 1946-47 that their enrollments were too low and their pupils would have to attend school in Wylie, Farmersville or Caddo Mills. Parents disliked the notice and began meeting to find a way to keep their schools. On April 6, 1947 the board grouped five districts into a rural high school district, finding each under four hundred in scholastic population and all adjoining. Nevada won the high school because it had an auditorium.

What the plaque says

Community Independent School District In the latter half of the nineteenth century, Collin County attracted numerous settlers who organized several schools for their children. Eventually these schools consolidated into six separate districts: Josephine, Lavon, Millwood, Mt. Pisgah, McMinn and Nevada. On April 6, 1947, the county school board of trustees of Collin County decided to consolidate these six districts in order to operate one rural high school for the area. Initially, Josephine school district was not part of the newly consolidated district. The town of Josephine wanted to maintain its own school district, but eventually, on July 28, 1947, Josephine ISD was added to the new consolidated district. The town of Nevada was chosen as the site for the high school, which was named Community Rural High School. The name Community was chosen to foster unity among the schools and communities. In 1974, a new campus was built in a central location to house all grades. That same year, it was decided that Community Rural High School District would become an independent school district and adopt the name it has today, Community Independent School District. The population of this area of Collin County has continued to grow and various new schools have been built to accommodate more students. The district itself has been educating students for over seventy years but many of the schools have been operating in their communities for over 150 years. The district is still providing students throughout the Copeville, Lavon, Nevada and Josephine are with a high level of education. (2019)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Rockwall County Historical Foundation & Museum — 10 mi
  A small museum in Harry Myers Park that keeps the evidence on Rockwall's rock wall, sandstone dikes that geologists call natural and folk tales call built.
• Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary — 16 mi
  A 289-acre sanctuary in McKinney that Bessie Heard founded at the age of 80, with five habitats, a 50-acre wetland and 6.5 miles of trails.
• Audie Murphy / American Cotton Museum — 17 mi
  A Greenville museum of Hunt County's military heroes, including Audie Murphy, and of cotton, which keeps the engine of what it says was the world's largest inland cotton compress.
• No. 1 British Flying Training School Museum — 25 mi
  A free museum at Terrell's airport where about 2,200 RAF cadets learned to fly between 1941 and 1945, with logbooks, uniforms, letters and original training aircraft.

More markers nearby

• Central National Road of the Republic of Texas — 1.2 mi
• Empire Masonic Lodge — 1.6 mi
• Nevada Baptist Church — 1.7 mi
• Nevada — 1.9 mi