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The school dug whole in the sibling Roseland pass on the newspaper-cited line (Tribune, 22 Apr 1930 and 12 Nov 1976); spot-corroborated; conflicts C18 and C22 are the sibling build's register numbers and print there whole
For ninety-four years the township's high school stood on two campuses. The opening year prints as the sibling build left it: 1930 governs, on the Tribune of 22 April 1930 ("County School is Dedicated"), against a 1939 date that circulates in a student paper and the aggregators. The school stood first on Lily Road — the campus that stands today as Clay International Academy — and from 1976 in the Darden Road building at 19131 Darden Road. Under Plan Z it carried the Fine Arts magnet. Its enrolment fell from 1,275 (2013–14) to 628 (2022–23) to 477 (2023–24). Its state titles were the 1970 baseball and 1994 boys basketball championships. The end came through the Facilities Master Plan: scenarios in February 2023, recommendations on 20 March 2023, and the vote on 17 April 2023, four to three — Ball, Lee, Wesley and Anella for; Greene, McCullough and Costello against — closing Clay at the end of 2023–24, in a district running at some seventy percent utilisation, with Clay's 628 students against a 1,500 capacity and a $16.2 million five-year keep-open cost in the plan's figures.
Two cautions print with the date. First, the shorthand: 2026 coverage of the building litigation repeatedly dates "the vote to close Clay" to December 2023. The contemporaneous record fixes the closure vote at 17 April 2023, and the February 2026 administrative record shows a real, distinct December 2023 building vote beneath the shorthand, whose exact text stands as a named gap in the sibling build. The shorthand does not displace April. Second, the reassignment: there was no single receiving school. Clay's displaced students held open enrolment with priority choice among Adams, Washington and Riley; the Fine Arts magnet moved to Riley; geographic boundaries were to be followed for 2024–25 under the consent decree. That mechanism describes the displaced cohort's treatment — it does not, by itself, print a geographic assignment for this town's addresses, and this section does not use it as one. The Save Clay effort — Save Clay, Inc. with Trustees Costello and McCullough — petitioned to intervene in the decree case on 30 June 2023; the United States opposed; Judge Simon denied the intervention on 16 October 2023. The June 2022 proposal to break Clay Township away as its own district, and the County Council's September 2023 study resolution, both failed.