The Corwith-Wesley school district, chronicled for the past year in The Des Moines Register, dismissed classes for the last time at the time of this post. A baker’s dozen of students graduated from Corwith-Wesley-LuVerne May 17. The Mason City Globe-Gazette also had a feature on the graduates.
CWL was already sharing sports with Algona, so there will be no baseball/softball teams carrying the flag into July. One of the world’s homeliest school websites, recently augmented with a trophy spreadsheet (XLS) that reads like an estate auction (which is exactly what happened), will go dark in midsummer.
Corwith-Wesley is the state’s fourth district to dissolve in the past 11 years. Elementary students will go to Lu Verne (as they have been), but grades 7-12 all go to Algona.
Next school year, the oldest active sharing agreement (1986) is a tie between Delwood and Stratford, which send all 7-12 students to Maquoketa and Webster City respectively. The oldest active two-way whole-grade sharing agreement moves, believe it or not, all the way to 2004, when Alden gave up its high school and now receives sixth-graders (and only sixth-graders) from Iowa Falls.