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October 2, 2015:<\/strong> Two views of the Hamburg school building. A larger version of the second photo can be seen by opening it in a new tab.<\/em><\/p>\n The southwesternmost school building in Iowa is also one of the most recent to be shuttered.<\/p>\n In the same state Department of Education review process that eventually ended with the Farragut school district getting nuked<\/a>, the Hamburg school district had to close the building complex centered around the 1924 high school. The state found multiple areas of noncompliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act.<\/a> Faced with spending large sums of money to comply, Hamburg and Farragut (as Nishnabotna) acted to move the middle school (2012-15) to Farragut and all elementary students to a school on the north side of Hamburg. (Farragut also closed the elementary portion of its building.)<\/p>\n With the end of the Farragut school district, Hamburg is back to a K-8 district, but all those students will be at Marnie Simons Elementary and not this building. The\u00a09-12 students are tuitioned out to Sidney<\/a>, but that is not yet a true one-way grade-sharing agreement. Neither the Q&A put out after the Farragut news<\/a>\u00a0nor Hamburg’s February meeting<\/a>\u00a0had an answer to the question of what to do with grades 9-12, but being in the corner of the state, there’s not much of a choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 2, 2015: Two views of the Hamburg school building. A larger version of the second photo can be seen by opening it in a new tab. The southwesternmost school building in Iowa is also one of the most recent … Continue reading