New Lima is a public school in Lima, Oklahoma, United States. A Class A school, New Lima's mascot is the falcon. The population of the school is approximately 300.
The current superintendent at New Lima is Gilford Turpin. The high school principal is Rhonda Barkhimer. The elementary school principal is Becky Green.
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“The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul’s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
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“The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)