In far southwest Iowa today, the Hamburg and Farragut school districts are voting on consolidation to become Nishnabotna. There have been plenty of meetings on the issue, with slightly higher stakes than a normal school merger because of the potential of both districts being dissolved if the vote fails. While both Hamburg and Farragut would have schools, the exact configuration going forward has not been agreed upon universally. From this announcement on the school’s website, it appears the old Hamburg High School building will close either way because of non-compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act.
The combined district would cover about the southern third and eastern third of Fremont County. As it stands right now in the sharing agreement, middle school kids in Imogene in the northeast corner of the county are going to school in Hamburg, a mile from the Missouri state line.