Meridian High School, two miles west of Daykin, is located on some magical line of longitude and also is named after a small town 7 miles south of there that was completely destroyed by a tornado in the 20's if memory serves. One building still stands and my Boy Scout troop mowed the cemetery 3 times a summer in the 1970's and 80's.
The high schools that consolidated in 1975 and moved into the new school were: Alexandria HS, Daykin HS, Tobias HS, and also gets a few students from now defunct elementaries in Western and Ohiowa that each had high schools in their own right before becoming K-8 districts. One rural church school elementary also sends students to Meridian, Zion Lutheran.
The school has almost always been class D, except for the first two years after its inception when it was C. Hebron, Fairbury, TriCounty, Geneva, ExeterMilligan and BruningDavenport school districts surround Meridian.
