March 11, 2011: A dugout remains for an abandoned baseball diamond beside the abandoned Coin school. Coin is one of five tiny towns that formed the South Page Community School District in 1959.
At its January board meeting, the South Page school district — the 10th-smallest in Iowa — voted unanimously to end its independent athletics programs, KMA reports.
The district along the Missouri state line is two-thirds of what it was 15 years ago and has been hovering around the 200-student mark. The KMA story says it was down to girls’ basketball, volleyball, and boys’ and girls’ track. Some programs were being shared with Essex, but the districts are not contiguous.