Before statehood, Old Greer County had over 150 schools that dotting the landscape. Beginning in 1917, many of the more than 80 communities in Greer County began the process of centralizing many small schools into consolidated school districts. By 1922, there were 13 consolidated schools. In a day when a high-school education was a rarity, Greer County's school system made high school available to 95% of the county's children.
Midway, Consolidated School #2 was located in this intersection. You can clearly see where the buildings once stood.
The purposed district was to include most of what would become City View Consolidated as well as the Hester Public School. This was later scaled back the name changed from Cityview to Midway. This would later be a source of confusion as the school was in the community of Cityview.
Much like Plainview in the northwest corner of the county, Midway, by virtue of its location away from the towns of Mangum and Granite managed to keep its doors open longer than many of the other rural schools.
In later years all the districts were slowly combined into the Mangum and Granite Public Schools Districts. In spite of the fact that the schools no longer stand, they still remain in the memories of the former students.
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