Category Archives: Schools

Feb 19

X is for Exira

Posted on Friday, February 19, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

(Hey, that’s cheating! — Ed.) May 22, 2014: Five weeks after this picture was taken, the school building used in Exira for most of the 20th century was destroyed in a controlled burn. There is an easy way to tell … Continue reading →

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Feb 18

Y is for Yarmouth

Posted on Thursday, February 18, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

June 1, 2015: The Yarmouth school building in northwest Des Moines County. The Yarmouth school building is visible from a distance on X31. According to the Mediapolis 1975 centennial book, the school was still in use at that time, 14 … Continue reading →

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Feb 17

Clutier’s 1942 championship team remembered

Posted on Wednesday, February 17, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

The Gazette looks back at small-town six-on-six champions from eastern Iowa from the first half of the 20th century. (Coincidentally, the listing of the towns one by one is the same narrative plan I had for something else involving girls’ … Continue reading →

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Feb 16

Diagonal last sub-100-enrollment school standing

Posted on Tuesday, February 16, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Iowa’s 2015-16 certified enrollment numbers were released last month. There was no press release dedicated to it (the annual Condition of Education report comes out at the same time). The overall public enrollment ticked up, but it’s from a trough … Continue reading →

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Jan 26

North Tama to play football in Des Moines metro area

Posted on Tuesday, January 26, 2016, at 10:15 AM by Jeff

North Tama’s new football district includes its southwesternmost opponents ever, extending down to a school in the village of Norwoodville. Where is Norwoodville, you ask? Well, it certainly was not a place I have mapped out in the recently updated … Continue reading →

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Jan 21

Lincoln Central was a zombie district for four years

Posted on Thursday, January 21, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Estherville-Lincoln Central, like many other small- to medium-sized school districts in Iowa, is consolidating all of its operations on one campus. In this case, there are separate buildings in one large area, and the newest addition will take the last … Continue reading →

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Jan 12

Adair-Casey losing its high school

Posted on Tuesday, January 12, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

(Here would be a good spot for a Duffy cartoon: The Adair water tower with a frowny face.) The school district that won the first two state championships in Iowa’s current 8-player-football classification is no longer able to continue on … Continue reading →

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Jan 08

North Tama smallest public school in 11-man football

Posted on Friday, January 8, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

The classifications (but not districts) for the next two years of Iowa high school football are out, and North Tama finds itself looking up. With 107 students in grades 9-11 (the “BEDS number”), North Tama will be the smallest public … Continue reading →

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Nov 25

Hamburg would like Farragut’s land

Posted on Wednesday, November 25, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

School districts in Fremont and western Page counties, from a state map of school levy rates. The town of Riverton is where Hamburg, Farragut, and Sidney meet. In light of last week’s decision by the state to nuke the Farragut … Continue reading →

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Nov 23

MMCRU: A quadrant unfilled

Posted on Monday, November 23, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

The combined Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn/Remsen-Union High School will be called… MMCRU. I thought there could have been a concession to Remsen-Union to give it the first part of the name, but overall in Iowa there’s only a handful of two-name/two-part districts where … Continue reading →

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