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Creekside Early Childhood, Hopewell Early Childhood, Shawnee Early Childhood, Heritage Early Childhood, Adena Elementary, Freedom Elementary, Woodland Elementary, Hopewell Junior School, Liberty Junior School, and the Lakota West Freshman building. The district plans on repurposing the current Lakota East & Lakota West main campus into junior school buildings. Ridge Junior School, Plains Junior School, and the East Freshman buildings would become elementary buildings. The district plans on building three new elementary schools and two new high schools. The district plans on making preschool its own separate building, instead of operating at VanGorden elementary & Liberty Early Childhood. All preschool operations would move to the Liberty Building. All grades K–5 would be considered elementary, grades 6–8 would be junior schools and 9–12 would be high schools.
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Chief Rick Prinz stated an extension cord coiled up under sweaty jerseys and tents most likely causes the fire. It also included a lithium ion battery which further increased the fire. All classes were canceled for the rest of the week at the main building, but all classes moved to a near by church. When the building was able to be reoccupied, choir, band, all lunch periods, and more stayed at the church. Core instruction classes moved back to
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Freshman school opened in the 2008–2009 school year for students who will attend Lakota East. The
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