May 28, 2012: Northeast Hamilton completed a major construction project at the beginning of the decade, and then began sending high school students to Webster City in 2015. Now what happens to the Trojan?
The Northeast Hamilton school district formed in 1962 with an enrollment of 685 students. Fifty-five years later, it’s under 200, and near the end of the line as an independent district.
Only 15 voters out of 424 in the Webster City and NEH districts (out of 6742 registered) opposed consolidation effective in 2019, reports the Daily Freeman-Journal. NEH gave up its high school three years ago. The school in Blairsburg will remain as a K-6 site named, uh, “Learning Center at Northeast Hamilton”.
The combined district will span the northern half of Hamilton County (plus Duncombe). Since Stratford’s 7-12 students also go there, Webster City is the 11th-largest single-high-school area in the state.
(Thanks to a reader for alerting me to this vote, which I had forgotten about.)