{"id":5628,"date":"2014-12-19T12:17:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T18:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5628"},"modified":"2014-12-20T00:39:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T06:39:08","slug":"elma-elementary-closed-is-lime-springs-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/12\/elma-elementary-closed-is-lime-springs-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Elma Elementary closed; is Lime Springs next?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“On roll call, all answered aye, although Duane Bodermann of Elma hesitated before voting to close his alma mater.”<\/em><\/p>\n

After years of debate<\/a> and declining enrollment, the Howard-Winneshiek school district closed Elma Elementary at the end of last school year, leaving only a preschool.<\/p>\n

In the briefs posted at the Lime Springs Herald<\/em> online news site, the news of the closure<\/a>\u00a0(source of the passage at top) also indicated that Lime Springs-Chester Elementary could follow if the district continues to lose students. Ridgeway Elementary closed in 2010.<\/a><\/p>\n

Howard-Winneshiek is the third-largest school district in the state by area. Its population is weighted toward the east half of the district in Cresco<\/a>. Elma sticks out on the west end. If you drew a line straight down Kent Avenue and attached Elma to Riceville, Elma students would have a closer school and Riceville would gain some much-needed enrollment. Of course, it doesn’t work that way.<\/p>\n

The Howard-Winn district was briefly in the news earlier this year when it was discussing a potential renaming<\/a>. The junior high and high school in Cresco are named “Crestwood” rather than Howard-Winneshiek JH\/HS, and the teams are Crestwood in athletics matters (see, for example, the 3A football standings<\/a>, where the Cadets went 0-9).<\/p>\n

Howard-Winn is one of only two single-high-school districts in Iowa that has a name for the high school that is not the name of the district. The other, Cherokee, has Washington High School but only applies that to the building.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: No change in Howard-Winneshiek name.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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