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The present McDonald County R-I School District is the result of consolidations of several county school districts.

The first two school districts to consolidate were the Pineville and Anderson school districts.

This was the first step in what was a long-range plan to combine all of the remaining high schools in the county with the exception of the Goodman School District which would become a part of the Neosho school system.

The plan for the Pineville – Anderson consolidation was approved and the state offered a $ 50, 000 matching grant for the building of a new high school.

If the remaining high schools were to have joined, an additional $ 200, 000 in matching grants would have been recurred.