The Missouri Board of Education voted to end the school district on June 30, 2014.
[3] The District was featured on an episode of NPR's This American Life that aired on July 31, 2015.
The reduction of industry, businesses and homeowners took a toll on the district and the surrounding municipalities.
In September 2012, the Missouri Board of Education voted to remove accreditation from Normandy School District due to ongoing academic issues.
[6] The Normandy School Board voted on October 24, 2013 to close Bel-Nor Elementary School and lay off more than 100 teachers in response to the district's ongoing financial problems, a move that would save the district about $3 million.
[9] On October 26, 2013, Missouri Education Commissioner Chris Nicastro noted that the State Board of Education is examining the possibility of removing the local Normandy School Board from power,[9] which it did on May 20, 2014, after over $8 million in transportation and tuition expenses for children in 20 other school districts left the District almost insolvent.
The District sued Missouri the next day, charging there was as much as $10,000 per child spent over the actual cost of the transfer, which has been for approximately 1,000 students.
In 2014 the NSD had five million dollars in debts, and paid lobbyist Andy Blunt $135,000 to seek bailout funds from the state legislature of Missouri.
However, the new district began to make gains on the Missouri Annual Performance Report.