“As you can see from the survey, over 90% of our community does not want to reorganize. Therefore reorganization is not an issue. We can not discuss reorganization at this time. The community is united in their opinion on this issue.”
The quote is an excerpt from a letter from the Titonka school board, printed in the Titonka Topic Oct. 6, 1994. At the time, Titonka was in a quadruple-header whole-grade-sharing agreement with Buffalo Center-Rake, Lakota, and Thompson that had started in 1989 and was called North Iowa. Buffalo Center-Rake and Lakota officially merged in the meantime and was pushing hard for full consolidation among the districts. Titonka was staunchly opposed and before the end of the 1994-95 school year signed an agreement with Woden-Crystal Lake instead.
In 2013-14, Titonka is a school district without students. Everyone in K-12 is going to school in Algona, a year ahead of the official consolidation. The district name will not change.
I have already written in some detail about the school situation in the area and may expand that in the future.