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Not sure why it wouldn't be an option. How many county districts keep a high school open with 130 students when it's not the only high school in the county. The Knott/Cordia thing doesn't really count since a judge made that happen.
The travel argument doesn't even hold up a year after kids in K-8 from Leatherwood were sent 25 miles to R.W. Combs. You could keep Buckhorn open K-8 and move the high school kids and that would match up with what other counties across the state have done for years.