Category Archives: Schools

Essex, Iowa’s fourth-smallest district operating a high school, is telling parents it faces a “challenging dilemma.” KMA reported on a Jan. 26 meeting where Superintendent Paul Croghan said it was time to start looking at whole-grade-sharing options with neighboring districts. All … Continue reading →

October 3, 2016: It says “Royal Public School” but it’s now the elementary school for Clay Central-Everly. An addition and the main entrance are off to the right. The Clay Central-Everly school district in northwest Iowa, where enrollment has dropped … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

2017 photo via Iowa Geographic Map Server The Mallard City Council doesn’t want the largest building in town. The West Bend-Mallard school district had a work session with the Mallard City Council on October 16 to discuss the fate of … Continue reading →

The as-yet-unnamed second Waukee high school is 2½ years from opening, and before that time, school officials will have to plot out a feeder system. First, though, it has to cope with an entire district’s worth of students pouring in … Continue reading →

The 55-mph school speed limit between Ames and Boone is going to stick around a while longer. According to last month’s school board agenda for the United school district, which is between the two cities, the board will approve whole-grade … Continue reading →

Part of a series. In my previous posts about my creation of a school directions booklet and the issues I have encountered updating it, I’ve danced around the elephant in the room. And that is the fact that in the … Continue reading →

Part of a series. In the booklet of directions to schools from North Tama (the PDF, as always, is downloadable in the sidebar on this blog), I made it a point to include the names of school officials — superintendent, … Continue reading →

Part of a series. An Eagle Scout project is not an individual endeavor. It requires leadership and delegation, coordination and compromise. Making a booklet of directions to area schools was going to take a lot of time — and I … Continue reading →

This map, working off the 2005-06 Iowa Dept. of Ed. districts map, shows all the public schools covered by the directions booklet in white. Previously included but now removed districts are in gray. First in a series. At the end … Continue reading →