Asher Independent School District

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Asher Independent School District
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Asher School following renovation.
Location
Asher, Oklahoma
United States
District information
Type Public
Motto"Take the t off can't and say I can."
GradesPre-k thru 12th
SuperintendentJason Alsup
Students and staff
Students250
ColorsNavy blue and white
Other information
Website www.asher.k12.ok.us

The Asher Independent School District, also known as Asher Public Schools, is a school district based in Asher, Oklahoma, United States. It contains an elementary school, a middle school, and a high school. The district-wide mascot is the Indians. [1]

Contents

The district includes Asher. The district, mostly in Pottawatomie County, [2] extends into McClain and Pontotoc counties. [3] [4]

Brief history

Asher Public Schools is an independent school district. It has an elementary school (grades Pre-K to 8) and a high school (grades 9 to 12).[ citation needed ] The school was established in 1903. In 1913, there were four other school districts within three miles (5 km) of Asher—Clover Dale, Gravel Hill, Avoca, and Pleasant Hill. The schools were small, consisting of only a room or two. Basic facilities were at a minimum. Talk began of consolidating all of the schools into the Asher district. [5] This was later accomplished, presumably around the time Asher's new school building was built in 1929.

Original building

Asher Schools' main and original building (after consolidation) was constructed in 1929. The building would later receive two additions, to either end. The center of the facility originally served as the schools' gym, before being converted to an auditorium when a new gym was built in the 1940s. An extensive renovation was completed in late 2006 on the original building. The work was made possible by a $1.295 million bond issue that was approved by residents in February 2005. [6]

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Bowen Field Sign

Extracurricular activities

Asher School, the Indians, participates in baseball, softball and men and women's basketball. For forty years, from 1959 to 1999, Asher had the winningest high school baseball team in the nation, led by head coach Murl Bowen. In those forty years, Asher won 2,115 games, lost only 349, hauled home forty-five state championship trophies and fourteen state runners-up, and sent dozens of players to college and minor-league baseball. No high school in history, public or private, has won as many games as the Asher Indians. A book was written about a man who once played baseball for the Asher Indians, called The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town , although the book was not written about him playing ball for the Indians. The baseball field in Asher was named after Murl Bowen for all the winnings he led Asher to in his coaching years that he was there, and his ever-lasting impression that he left on all Asher citizens. Up to this date, even after slipping into retirement, you can still see Mr. Murl Bowen at the school's basketball games and boys' baseball games. [7]

Asher also has chapters of the Business Professionals of America (BPA), Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) and the National FFA Organization (FFA). [8] Asher 4-H and FFA regularly captures the top sheep honors at livestock shows. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ "Asher Public Schools".
  2. ↑ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Pottawatomie County, OK" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 9, 2022. Retrieved October 12, 2024. - Text list
  3. ↑ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: McClain County, OK" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau . Retrieved October 12, 2024. - Text list
  4. ↑ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Pontotoc County, OK" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau . Retrieved October 12, 2024. - Text list
  5. ↑ "The Alligator". Asher High School. October 1913.
  6. ↑ Holt, Brad. "asherok.info :: School Renovation" . Retrieved November 3, 2006.
  7. ↑ Grisham, John (2006). The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town . Doubleday. pp.  29–30.
  8. ↑ "Asher School". Archived from the original on October 12, 2006. Retrieved November 3, 2006.
  9. ↑ "Sheep Trophy Goes to Asher's Thompson Family for 10th Year". Shawnee News-Star. March 13, 1998.


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