The Davenport school district is considering changes to the grade configuration in Walcott.
KWQC and WQAD both reported last week that the K-8 school there could become a middle school for grades 5-8 or 6-8. Younger students would go to Buffalo or Blue Grass. Walcott is Davenport’s only K-8 school this year; others are K-6. A full accounting of options given at a July school board meeting can be found in this long PDF.
Enrollment in the Davenport district, which extends from I-74 to Walcott and Blue Grass, dropped 10% in the 2010s, and a change in state law last year lifted previous restrictions on open enrollment out.
It wouldn’t count as a closure for Walcott, but it would be a loss nonetheless.