Ah I see. We are in Clever and it always shocks people when I say one of the kindergarten teachers has her doctorate in education and a ton of them have Masters degrees as well.

I guess they think the whole school/area is a bunch of “country bumpkins” who only travel by tractor or something.

That being said, I am not from here originally. My husband grew up in Bolivar but I grew up in Hawaii so my school experience was different.

The small towns do have a very welcoming sense of community but I do feel sometimes it is on the surface. We have had several school functions where it seems every knows everyone, they all went to school together and while I don’t know that they mean to, sometimes it does seem like they are all in a group facing inward talking. Not exactly welcoming to “outsiders”. I am a pretty big introvert though and our kids are NOT lol. So the kids seem to still have 0 issues, despite us knowing almost no one here.

I also went to Marionville and have had a couple of family members attend Greenwood. They have middle school students doing things my English teacher was assigning senior year. I was not at all impressed with my teacher and honestly felt like I was behind my classmates when I started college. Bottom line is that no college is going to be impressed with graduating from Marionville and Greenwood has some obvious advantages.

You should look at Central instead.

Ah, marionville, where I got cornered in the parking lot of a girls basketball game by 5 football players who were informing me about how "people think they can just come to marionville, but we'll kick your ass we don't even care" before some friends noticed my predicament and escorted me to my car.