Last week, the Iowa City school board determined names for buildings soon to be built, including a high school on the east side of North Liberty. That one will be called Liberty High School. But why not “North Liberty High”? It’s both geographic for its position in the Iowa City district and easy correlation with the city of North Liberty.
Sure, some students with a home address of Iowa City will be going there, but plenty of students with home addresses of Des Moines suburbs go to Waukee. The other analogue I can think of is the Columbus school district with both Columbus Junction and Columbus City.
This will be the third high school in the Iowa City district, and the second division of an urban district in Iowa in the 2010s. The name will give the now-30th-largest city in Iowa a little piece of modern school history.