Cross County Community School District is a consolidated school district in

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, United States. In 2002, the communities of

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and

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consolidated their school districts to form Cross County Public Schools. The school's team mascot is the

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. The current K-12 school building was built three miles south of Stromsburg and five miles north of Benedict, at the intersection of

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and

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, being completed in late 2009. The district's mailing address is in Stromsburg.

Sports and Extracurricular activities

Cross County currently offers basketball, track and field, golf, wrestling, and weights for boys and the same for girls, except for football. During football season, girls have the option of volleyball or softball. For wrestling we consolidate with Osceola High School to form CCO Twisters, for softball, we consolidate with Osceola High School and High Plains Community Schools to form Polk County Slammers. Cross County offers FCCLA, National Honors Society,

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, FFA, FBLA, FCA,

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, dance, theater, band, choir, and speech as the main extracurricular activitiesCross County Community School District. Activities. (n.d.). https://www.crosscountyschools.org/page/activities

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* School districts in Nebraska Education in York County, Nebraska Education in Polk County, Nebraska School districts established in 2002 {{Nebraska-school-stub