Grades seven and eight were added later to form a junior-senior high school.

It is a public junior-senior high school, built in 1939, that has a maximum capacity of 275 students.

The junior-senior high school has languished on the list of the state's worst schools for 11 years.

The first was to close the junior-senior high school and send its students to high schools in surrounding towns.

Originally, it was designed as a junior-senior high school, housing grades seven through twelve.

In 1999, the junior-senior high school had an enrollment of 164 pupils.

The combined junior-senior high school opened in September 1954 to 800 students.

Last month, student unrest closed the combined junior-senior high school for two days.

Of the 800 students in the junior-senior high school, 180 are in the marching band.

In 1929, Benton became a junior-senior high school that offered courses from the 7th through the 12th grade.