October 2, 2015: Two views of the Hamburg school building. A larger version of the second photo can be seen by opening it in a new tab.
The southwesternmost school building in Iowa is also one of the most recent to be shuttered.
In the same state Department of Education review process that eventually ended with the Farragut school district getting nuked, the Hamburg school district had to close the building complex centered around the 1924 high school. The state found multiple areas of noncompliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act. Faced with spending large sums of money to comply, Hamburg and Farragut (as Nishnabotna) acted to move the middle school (2012-15) to Farragut and all elementary students to a school on the north side of Hamburg. (Farragut also closed the elementary portion of its building.)
With the end of the Farragut school district, Hamburg is back to a K-8 district, but all those students will be at Marnie Simons Elementary and not this building. The 9-12 students are tuitioned out to Sidney, but that is not yet a true one-way grade-sharing agreement. Neither the Q&A put out after the Farragut news nor Hamburg’s February meeting had an answer to the question of what to do with grades 9-12, but being in the corner of the state, there’s not much of a choice.