The final assimilation of what used to be the shared but unmerged Corwith-Wesley-Lu Verne schools into Algona will happen next year.
Voters last month overwhelmingly approved the merger of Algona and Lu Verne, KICD radio reports. The latter had officially gained nearly all of the old Corwith-Wesley district in 2015 and has been a K-5 school since 2018. The new district, 45% of the size of Rhode Island, will span from Whittemore to Wesley and County Road A42 to County Road C20. Lu Verne is the only town outside of Algona with a school — for now.
Starting July 1, 2023, Algona will be Iowa’s largest single-high-school consolidated district by area, only barely smaller than the two-high-school Western Dubuque district, and also barely smaller than MVAOCOU, the largest single-high-school but not consolidated area. (There’s a four-way logjam at around 550 square miles.) The third-largest consolidated district will be Southeast Valley, which also goes into effect then.
I still think it should’ve been renamed South Kossuth.