The 94-year-old school building in Cleghorn will educate students for one more month. The Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn district will close the building, used for fourth through sixth grades, to save $130,000 a year, says the Sioux City Journal. The district will still use the gym in Cleghorn.
MMC was in talks with Remsen-Union earlier this school year, but whole-grade sharing proposals fell apart over where the high school would be. Now, R-U is in a dire enough position that it’s been talking to Le Mars, which is an all-give-and-no-take situation. (Two-way sharing is a non-starter, the Le Mars Sentinel was told, and a name change would be supremely doubtful.)
Cleghorn is the fifth Iowa town this school year to be faced with the closure of its only public school, the same number as last year.