Editing Benton, Kansas (section)

==Education==
The community is served by [[Circle USD 375]] public school district.  Benton is home to Circle Benton Elementary and Circle Middle School.  The [[middle school]] is visible as one drives on the highway past [[K-254 (Kansas highway)|K-254]].

Benton High School was closed through school unification. The Benton Tigers won the [[Kansas State High School Activities Association|Kansas State High School]] class B baseball championship in 1957.<ref>{{cite web | title = Baseball | publisher = KSHSAA | url = http://www.kshsaa.org/Public/Baseball/History.cfm | accessdate = 6 January 2017 | archive-date = January 7, 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170107171534/http://www.kshsaa.org/Public/Baseball/History.cfm | url-status = dead }}</ref>

=== Circle Middle School ===
Circle Middle School is the home of the Thunderbirds. The school is a part of the Walnut Valley League (WVL). Students from Circle Benton Elementary, Circle Towanda Elementary, Circle Greenwich Elementary, and Circle Oil Hill Elementary attend this school in their seventh and eighth grades. After graduating, the students move onto Circle High School in [[Towanda, Kansas|Towanda]].

Circle Middle School used to be a combination of Circle Benton Elementary and Circle Towanda Elementary, which, at the time, were both K-8 schools. Circle Oil Hill Elementary bused their kids over to Circle Towanda Elementary for classes. When the schools became too crowded due to the influx of jobs in nearby [[Wichita, Kansas|Wichita]], [[El Dorado, Kansas|El Dorado]], and [[Andover, Kansas|Andover]], the school board voted to build a middle school in Benton.{{citation needed|date=March 2011}} The project was completed by Summer 2002.{{citation needed|date=March 2011}} Classes began in the fall. The first 8th grade class to go through the middle school graduated in 2007 from Circle High School.{{citation needed|date=March 2011}}