July 7, 2015: The former Gladbrook-Reinbeck Middle School was the Gladbrook High School before 1988.
The Gladbrook school is another recent addition to the list of closed schools in Iowa. This closure in 2015 triggered something that had never happened in Iowa history: Residents petitioned for the district’s dissolution. The yearlong process reached the point of a draft map being released to disperse the district among five bordering ones. But on Aug. 23, the board rejected the petition over the validity of signatures, making the previous year of meetings and efforts all for naught.
The GR school district and the city spent nearly $550,000 on a fitness center attached to the school that opened in 2008. There’s also an indoor pool, but the pool’s Twitter account has all of eight tweets in 50 days in 2014.