Editing Claflin, Kansas (section)

==Education==
The community is served by [[Central Plains USD 112]] public school district. The Central Plains High School mascot is the "Oilers" and current principal is Toby Holmes.

Prior to a consolidation, the school and mascot were known as the Claflin High School "Wildcats".<ref>"Western Kansas Basketball Results", Great Bend Tribune, 13 December 1967, p.5.</ref>

As the Claflin Wildcats, they won the Kansas State High School 8-Man DII football championship in 1991 and 1992 as well as the 2-1A football championship in 1997, 1998 and 1999.<ref name="football" />  The Central Plains Oilers won the [[Kansas State High School Activities Association|Kansas State High School]] 8-Man DI football championship in 2014, and again in 2018 after an undefeated season, finishing 13–0 with the Kansas State Ranking of #1 for their classification, and a National ranking of #8 in the country.<ref name="football">{{cite web | title = Football | publisher = KSHSAA | url = http://www.kshsaa.org/Public/Football/History.cfm | accessdate = 3 January 2017 | archive-date = December 20, 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161220184508/http://www.kshsaa.org/Public/Football/History.cfm | url-status = dead }}</ref>