Category Archives: Schools

There are a couple of articles in the Carroll Daily Times Herald about the IKM-Manning district’s discussions over the past year. I think there’s a little bit of time-stamp garbling as they are dated three months ago but show up … Continue reading →

Story via AP/KCRG. There will be a vote in September, so there’s not much else to report on this at the moment.

This school fire is a good one — Exira is planning a controlled burn of its original brick building. The AP article about it notes that it was closed not just because of declining enrollment, but because “The structure was … Continue reading →

A quirky fact about Iowa school districts will expire this summer along with the Clearfield school district. The Des Moines school district by far has the largest student population in the state. Since the closure of Lineville-Clio, Diagonal has been … Continue reading →

KMA Radio has a story about the end of the school year approaching for the small southern Iowa district of Clearfield, which will dissolve. The story includes a photo of the school — my photo of the school, which I … Continue reading →

The school district in the central portion of Clinton County has an issue with being called…Central Clinton. The Clinton Herald has the longer story, which was picked up by the AP. The official name is “Central Community School District of … Continue reading →

Still in spindle-clearing mode… After consolidation of Exira and Elk Horn-Kimballton, there wasn’t a need for two school sites in Exira. The district has decided to burn down the multi-story brick downtown site April 27. Exira still has a school, … Continue reading →

The catch: It’s going to be part of the Iowa City school district. The district awarded a design contract Tuesday for a building that would open in 2017. The new high school will be on the east side of North … Continue reading →

July 6, 2013: Detail of stone carving over entrance to original Stanwood school building. KCRG has the story, which is also embedded below. This move by North Cedar does something that hasn’t happened in a long time, if at all: … Continue reading →

In my piece last year about school districts in north-central Iowa (linked at right, and here), I mentioned the Corwith-Wesley and LuVerne school districts, which have been together for years but are technically still independent, were going to enter grade-sharing … Continue reading →