Collierville and Germantown in Tennessee outside Memphis separated from the Shelby County School District in 2013 to set up their own individual municipal districts.

Both towns were already incorporated when this occurred.

My property values in Collierville went up a lot once the district was established. They've actually upgraded their high school since then with an entirely new campus.

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Printed on the maroon walls of the entrance to the new, 450,000 square-foot, multi-million dollar Collierville High School are its core values: scholarship, integrity and service.

The school's seal is emblazoned on the floor, with a tradition proposed that no one step on the inscription of "truth" and "honor."

"I'm looking forward to the community seeing it, opening it up to the community," Superintendent John Aitken said Saturday inside the new school ahead of a weekend ribbon-cutting ceremony. "Really watching the kids go 'wow' when they see this. My hope — we'll be preaching this to them — is they appreciate the commitment the town and their parents have made, paying extra taxes for the construction of this facility. It was a leap of faith for the town."

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Features of the school include a 1,000-seat auditorium, 107 regular classrooms, eight science labs, four music classrooms, 18 vocational classrooms, four computer labs, a STEM lab, an auto mechanics shop, a commercial kitchen classroom, a welding studio and space for advance manufacturing and agricultural education.

Sports facilities include a soccer field and fieldhouse, a 3,000-seat varsity gymnasium, a 750-seat auxiliary gymnasium, a 150-seat auxiliary gymnasium, a 5,000-seat baseball stadium along with a baseball field and fieldhouse, a softball field and fieldhouse and a lacrosse field. There is also an outdoor track and a marching band field.

They are actually drawing students from some of the private schools in the area now.

Those towns control their own destiny now. If they want a new gold plated school, they can tax themselves for it. If they want to reduce costs, they can. They aren't at the mercy of politicians in a neighboring city anymore.

This post was edited on 10/24/18 at 12:57 pm