Category Archives: Schools

Jun 02

Final bell in Walnut

Students walked out the doors of the Pottawattamie County town of Walnut for the last time last week. Next year it will be part of a fully consolidated AHSTW. (The population on the town sign mentioned in the story is … Continue reading

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May 27

Harmony’s final gift

Harmony High School graduated its last class on Sunday. The 21 seniors each received a $2,900 scholarship, reported the Burlington Hawk Eye (if that’s unavailable, AP version). The school distributed the money from two alumni estates. Juniors and sophomores were … Continue reading

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May 26

M is for Moneta

July 21, 2012: The school is one of the very few buildings left in Moneta, barely on the west side of the O’Brien/Clay county line. The tiny Moneta school district was caught in a tug of war between Hartley and Everly … Continue reading

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May 24

Corwith school building gone

June 19, 2015: The back of the Corwith school building. The Des Moines Register was there last week to cover the demise of the century-old school building in Corwith. The district dissolved at the end of last school year. Nearly … Continue reading

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May 23

What’s going on with Collins-Maxwell?

April 17, 2016: The present Collins-Maxwell Elementary in Collins was built in the 1990s. Although Collins-Maxwell and Baxter have shared sports for nearly three decades now, they have never done any integration beyond that. Now, attempts at talking about whole-grade … Continue reading

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May 19

N is for Numa

September 13, 2011: The Numa school is now an archery business, a successful repurposing of a school building. Numa. Clutier. Steamboat Rock. Wiota. In the 1940s, these map dots that don’t have their own schools anymore, along with Numa’s neighbor … Continue reading

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May 16

Waukee gains the population of Forest City

The rapid growth in Dallas County and This Is Where Your School District Went continues uninterrupted, as revealed in two news stories last week. First, a second Waukee high school will open in 2021, which sounds like a long time … Continue reading

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May 06

O is for Otranto

September 29, 2015: Iowa’s Prairie Castle of Otranto. The vines certainly add a gothic touch. The school in tiny Otranto, just south of the Minnesota border, was in use for 50 years and closed in 1966, according to a reprinted … Continue reading

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May 04

What will happen to St. Ansgar Elementary?

August 4, 2015: Detailed view of the brickwork at the southeast corner of the St. Ansgar Elementary building, which started out as the town’s main school building. They don’t build them like this anymore. The St. Ansgar school district has … Continue reading

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May 02

Draft Gladbrook-Reinbeck dissolution map released

At a meeting last week, the Gladbrook-Reinbeck Dissolution Committee unveiled a first draft of the way the school district would be divided up should a vote pass. The district’s PDF is here (Google Docs) and I have replicated it below. … Continue reading

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