Craig has become a member of the East Atchison cooperative for football and baseball. They are competing with East Atchison in baseball this season and will compete with them in football starting next year.
On December 20th, 2023, the Mound City School Board voted unanimously to terminate the all-sports cooperative agreement with Craig that had been in place for the previous nine years. The Mound City paper in February 2025 reported that enrollment at Craig had declined to 49 students total at one point, although that number subsequently rose to 67. The town has not recovered either population or in enrollment since the flooding of 1993 and 2011. As of the current enrollment period, Craig had 13 students between grades 9 through 11 according to the MSHSAA enrollment page.
In 2024, Mound City competed on its own in all sports. Mound City and Craig had separate tents at the Worth County Early Bird this year. Meanwhile, Craig engaged in talks with all neighboring school districts before reaching the agreement with EA.
In February 2025, a committee consisting of members of Tarkio and Fairfax that oversee the East Atchison cooperative was receptive to adding Craig on a year by year basis. There was talk of adding girls softball as well, but that did not materialize. At the February 2025 board meeting, the Tarkio School Board voted to add Craig to the cooperative on a 5-2 vote.
All home sports events will continue to be held at either Fairfax or Tarkio. Craig will provide transportation to practices.
The upcoming school year will see wholesale changes for Tarkio and the East Atchison cooperative. Longtime football coach Aaron Behrens, longtime boys basketball coach Kevin Dodson, and girls basketball coach Devin Albertson have all turned in their resignations.
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