Board of Education

 
The district officially came into existence as State Consolidated District No. 1 on July 1, 1915 under the authority of a state consolidation law. Shortly thereafter, residents of the area voted 52 to 1 to approve a $12,000 bond to supplement an $18,000 appropriation from the state for the construction of a new school building for grades one through twelve.

  Not long after, the school board adopted the name Caesar Rodney for the district and school in honor of the Revolutionary War hero and statesman who had made his home near St. Jones Neck in the eastern part of the county. Three years later the state legislature passed another consolidation law in an effort to eliminate many of the one-room schoolhouses that dotted the state.
 

  On July 1, 1919 the Caesar Rodney Consolidated School District was joined with six smaller        surrounding districts to form the Caesar Rodney Special School District, one of 13 "larger and more responsible" districts in the state that were "endowed with the authority to own and administer buildings, grounds and equipment; to conduct all grades; to provide free textbooks and supplies; to elect a superintendent and a principal, to demand certification of teachers; and to levy taxes with the vote of the people."
 

  As a result of that law, the district hired its first superintendent, Gilbert Nickel, who led a staff of 17 teachers. Nickel would serve in that capacity until July of 1923 when Wilbur H. Jump became the district's second superintendent, a position he would hold for the next 15 years. Also, the remaining "one-room school house districts" in the state were established as school attendance districts under the direct supervision of the state board of education.