Editing Orchard, Nebraska (section)

==Education==
[[Summerland Public Schools]] formed in 2020 after absorbing the Orchard school district.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.education.ne.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/DissolutionHistory_2021_22.pdf|title=SCHOOL FINANCE AND ORGANIZATION SERVICES CUMULATIVE DISTRICT DISSOLUTIONS - 1990/91 thru 2021/22|publisher=[[Nebraska Department of Education]]|pages=2, 3, and 44|accessdate=2022-11-27}}</ref>

Orchard was formerly in [[Nebraska Unified School District 1]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st31_ne/schooldistrict_maps/c31003_antelope/DC20SD_C31003.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Antelope County, NE|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|accessdate=2022-11-29}}</ref> Around 2007, the villages of Clearwater, Orchard, Royal and Verdigre became the Unified School District #1 and began sharing administration between them. Subsequent to this, in 2009, presumably due to a lack of funds and a lack of student participation on both ends, school rivals, the Orchard Orioles football team, and the Clearwater Cardinals football team, combined to form the O-C Cyclones. After the initial trial year, it was decided that all sports teams between the two schools would combine under the O-C Cyclones banner. The school systems have since combined to form the Clearwater-Orchard Public Schools.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}

Orchard is served by the Orchard Public Library.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.orchardpubliclibrary.org | title=Homepage | publisher=Orchard Public Library | access-date=29 July 2014}}</ref>