Crane Union High School is a public high school in Crane, Oregon, United States. It is a boarding school that serves students from a large geographic area. Its district is known as the Harney County Union High School District 1J, and covers much of Harney County. In 1976 it was the only American public boarding high school operated by a local school district. History It opened in 1918. It moved to Crane circa 1920 after initially being in Lawen. On January 25, 1967, a fire ruined the school building. Service area The official school district attendance area includes, in addition to Crane: Diamond, Double-O Ranch, Drewsey, Fields, Frenchglen, Riley, and Suntex. In 2002 the size of its attendance boundary was , an area that was about the same size as that of Massachusetts. The school also historically served sections of Malheur County, and portions of Humboldt County, Nevada. Some communities in Nevada had inter-state agreements. Sending school districts pay the costs of tuition. Crane Union historically served the Denio area, including when the townsite was in Oregon. The area on the Oregon state line across from Denio is, as of 2020, in the official Crane Union boundary. Denio, Nevada parents with high school aged children may send their children to Crane Union instead of sending them to Albert M. Lowry High School in Winnemucca, Nevada. Background Crane Union High School is the only school in Crane Union High School District, which covered the most area in Oregon as of 2006, serving . Students from the surrounding ranches attend Crane Union High School from as far away as . Crane is one of the oldest public boarding schools in the country. Admissions The district automatically enrolls from the Harney County Union High School District 1J boundary in Harney County. The district also takes tuition-paying students from outside the boundary and students which are sent there by cooperative agreement from other school districts paying tuition. Campus It has of area. The dormitory, funded by money otherwise used for transportation, is for students over away. Male students have the first floor and female students have the second. The school started boarding in 1928, and established a brick dormitory, which had two floors, in 1931. In the 1940s a dormitory for female students opened. Its current facility, made of cement and steel, opened due to a 1967 fire that ruined the previous building. The