The school district that Iowa girls’ basketball phenom Lynne Lorenzen led to a state six-on-six title in 1987, Ventura, will expire next year.
The Garner-Hayfield and Ventura school districts voted overwhelmingly for consolidation after three years of whole-grade sharing.
This year between Clear Lake and Algona on US 18 there were four school districts on the way: Ventura, Garner-Hayfield, West Hancock, and Corwith-Wesley. Next fall there will officially be three: GHV, West Hancock, and Lu Verne, which will receive the dissolved C-W’s land as explained Monday.*
In other news, Springville rejected a bond issue to replace its 53-year-old elementary school. That is a relatively young building in Iowa terms, but it has the additional burden of “open-concept” classrooms that were briefly in vogue in the 1960s.
*I wrote the headline for this blog post before looking at the Garner Leader‘s Twitter feed, which also said “it’s a go” in regards to GHV. Great minds think alike?