Category Archives: Schools

A story from KTVO says that one unused school building in Ottumwa (Walsh) “has run the full course of useable life” and another (Wildwood) would cost millions of dollars to renovate for non-class use. A short Internet search shows that … Continue reading →

The 94-year-old school building in Cleghorn will educate students for one more month. The Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn district will close the building, used for fourth through sixth grades, to save $130,000 a year, says the Sioux City Journal. The district will still … Continue reading →

Story from Iowa Farmer Today. Busing, both in terms of time for students and gasoline costs, has significant effects on rural districts’ budgets.

For $1. The building’s new owners intend to keep it and turn it into apartments, and make the gym available to the public.

The district in eastern Iowa that is most often called “Central Clinton,” and has a website as as “Central Community,” appears to have filed a name change with the state Department of Education last calendar year. The kinda-sorta-less-vague-yet-not-really name change to … Continue reading →

The Midland junior/senior high school in Wyoming has an awkward setup: two separate complexes across the street from each other. The 1914 building was kept by itself while an entirely new building was constructed in the mid-20th century (before the … Continue reading →

A proposed consolidation of the AHST and Walnut school districts next year would result in … the AHSTW school district, the Council Bluffs Nonpareil reported last month. The new district, which would erase one of the straighter boundaries out there … Continue reading →

The vote in is, reports the Creston News-Advertiser, and by a slim margin, the Prescott school district will be absorbed into the Creston school district. Voter turnout was in the mid-single-digit percentages. Consolidation will not be official for a while, … Continue reading →

After months of debate, the Iowa Legislature agreed that school should be allowed to start a full week to 10 days earlier than spelled out in current law, which is what should have been done all along. An Aug. 23 … Continue reading →

The Iowa Department of Education earlier this month gave the individual Farragut and Hamburg school districts “conditional accreditation”, meaning that there will not be any forced dissolution, at least for another year. KMA stories: Farragut, Hamburg. However, it appears that at … Continue reading →