Kermit Independent School District

{{short description|School district in Texas}}

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| name = Kermit Independent School District

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| streetaddress = 601 South Poplar

| city = Kermit

| state = Texas

| county = (Winkler County)

| zipcode = 79745

| country = USA

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| superintendent = Denise Shetter

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| type = Public

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| motto = "E Pluribus Unum" "Out of Many, One"

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| colors = {{color box|Maroon}} Maroon {{color box|#ffb612}} Gold

| established = {{Start date and age|1928}}

| enrollment = 1,235 (2009)

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| website = {{URL|http://kisd.esc18.net/}}

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Kermit Independent School District is a public school district located in Kermit, Texas, United States that serves students in northeastern Winkler County and encompasses {{Convert|398.09|sqmi|km2|abbr=off|sp=us}}. The City of Kermit is located just under the southeast corner of New Mexico at the intersection of Texas State Highways 18, 115, and 302, and is approximately {{Convert|46|mile|km|abbr=off|sp=us}} west of Odessa.{{cite web|url=http://kisd.esc18.net/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=590& |title=Kermit ISD Website |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126021623/http://kisd.esc18.net/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=590& |archivedate=2010-11-26 }} The enrollment of the district was 1,235 at the beginning of the 2010–2011 school year.

In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency.{{cite web|url=http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/perfreport/account/2009/index.html |title=2009 Accountability Rating System |publisher=Texas Education Agency |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151025190535/http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/perfreport/account/2009/index.html |archivedate=2015-10-25 }}

The district received national attention in January 2015 after a nine-year-old boy was controversially suspended because he "told a classmate he could make him disappear with a ring forged in fictional Middle Earth’s Mount Doom." The same boy had already been suspended on two previous occasions, which were also questioned by some in the public.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/texas-boy-suspended-bringing-ring-power-school-article-1.2099103|title=Texas boy suspended for saying he could make classmate 'disappear' with 'Lord of the Rings' sorcery|website=New York Daily News}}