Editing Malden, Missouri (section)

==Education==
The public school system of the Malden R-1 School District is a 3A designated school for athletics (2A for football).  The mascot is the Green Wave, and its last state championship was 2007,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://champs.mshsaa.org/results/box.asp?Box_Score_ID=306 |title=MSHSAA Box Score |accessdate=2009-09-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030061735/http://champs.mshsaa.org/results/box.asp?Box_Score_ID=306 |archivedate=2007-10-30 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://champs.mshsaa.org/results/box.asp?Box_Score_ID=243 |title=MSHSAA Box Score |accessdate=2009-09-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727100923/http://champs.mshsaa.org/results/box.asp?Box_Score_ID=243 |archivedate=2011-07-27 }}</ref> when the school won its second consecutive Boys Track championship. The Malden Green Wave Football program competed in the state playoffs in 2010 and the boys baseball team were conference regular season champions and won a district title for the first time in 31 years in 2011. The Malden school system has been named one of the top 10% of American High Schools for 3 years running and ranked as the best school in southeast Missouri based on 2009-2010 [[Missouri Assessment Program]] test scores. The Malden School Board was recognized by the Missouri School Board's Association as its Outstanding Board of the Year in 2011. Malden has two satellite college campuses, one from Three Rivers Community College and another from Southeast Missouri State University.

Malden has a [[public library]], a branch of the Dunklin County Library.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://dunklin-co.lib.mo.us | title=Locations | publisher=Dunklin County Library | accessdate=17 March 2018}}</ref>