440:, started around 1844. Medina's District 3 merged with Radnor's District 10, and the new school was built in 1872; the county school superintendent called it a "Banner School" and the name stuck. It was the first school in Peoria County to have single desks. This school closed in 1953 and the district split among Dunlap #302, Wilder-Waite #303, and Mossville #306 (which later consolidated into
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269:Principal: Katie Cazalet
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501:, from a prominent new family in the area, to avoid confusion after the new village of Dunlap got its own school. Around 1945, District #109 was divided between Dunlap District #105 (soon to consolidate into #302) and
466:, was established around 1849; it moved to a new school in 1868 on the spare ground of the Methodist Church church yard. The school was rebuilt there in 1913 after a fire. It consolidated to form Dunlap #302 in 1945.
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