Formation of non-high school districts were enabled by state legislation in 1917[2]: 3 and their provisions remain statute law in Illinois.
[4] As of 2006[update], District 122 provided tuition for students to attend Red Bud High School in Red Bud and for a special education student to attend Waterloo High School in Waterloo, Illinois.
The Red Bud students are picked up by bus in Prairie de Rocher each day.
In addition, District 122 students who attend the private Gibault Catholic High School still have their driver's education paid by District 122 since Gibault students take driver's education at Waterloo High School.
[2]: 2 The sole paid staff member for 2009–2010 wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on this school district in 2006.