Editing Clever, Missouri (section)

==Education==
The first school building in Clever was constructed in 1909. A two-room, two-story brick building, it served to educate students from a number of previous small rural one-room school houses, including the Pleasant Hope school previously one half mile north of Clever.<ref name=Hundred/> Additions were made in 1912 and 1916 that allowed the education to go up to tenth grade. In 1919 Blooming Grove and Taylor schools merged with Clever to form the Consolidated District Number 5. In 1920 it became a four-year high school.<ref name=Hundred/>

A fire in the spring of 1931 destroyed the building; however, a larger two-story brick building was built in time for the following school year. Merges with several small rural districts in the mid-20th century led to the creation of the current Clever R-V (5) school district. The district now provides pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade education to the community and rural portions of Christian County. In 2010–11 school year, there were 1,119 students enrolled in the Clever R-V school district.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mcds.dese.mo.gov/guidedinquiry/District%20and%20School%20Information/Missouri%20School%20Directory%20by%20County.aspx |title=Missouri School Directory by County |access-date=2012-08-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120818212919/http://mcds.dese.mo.gov/guidedinquiry/District%20and%20School%20Information/Missouri%20School%20Directory%20by%20County.aspx |archive-date=2012-08-18 }}</ref>