[5] Circa 2008 it began a new whole-grade sharing agreement with the Rockwell–Swaledale as "West Fork Schools".
[7] On July 1, 2011, it merged with Rockwell–Swaledale to form the West Fork Community School District.
[3] The district had a single SCMT Elementary School, which had 20 employees and 160 students in early 2008.
Thornton had been a combined elementary and junior high school since 1988 as a result of the SCMT grade-sharing agreement.
The Thornton school was demolished in 2012 by the Dumont company Peterson Backhoe; the SCMT district chose demolition after a tentative agreement for another party to buy the building fell through in 2009.