In the Register. All of these districts have been in whole-grade sharing for a while now (Clarion-Goldfield and Dows for a decade, which frankly stuns me). Once these go through, and Clearfield dissolves, the state’s list of sharing agreements will shrink substantially.
The state’s third-, eighth-, and ninth-smallest districts by certified enrollment in 2013 won’t exist next year. The 24th- and 25th-smallest are merging with each other.
In a moment (actually, an hour) of Internet poignancy, here’s a YouTube link to an entire six-girl basketball game played between Titonka and Sentral on Dec. 6, 1983. Titonka and Sentral are both going away.
I should update my long piece about Kossuth County schools to reflect events of the past year, but it still has all the important factors.
UPDATE: Speaking of six-girl basketball and districts being lost, here’s a feature from CBS from 1988 about six-on-six focusing on the Elk Horn-Kimballton Lady Danes, with a cameo appearance by Ventura’s Lynne Lorenzen. (Note the comparison with Iowa State women’s hoops B.F. — Before Fennelly.) EHK is officially merging with Exira July 1, and Ventura will almost certainly merge with Garner-Hayfield next year.