The Coulter-Alexander-Latimer school district, hammered by the population decline affecting nearly all of rural Iowa and the end of a sharing agreement with Dows a decade ago, is unable to hold on to its independence.
CAL will send grades 7-12 to Hampton-Dumont in fall 2018, the Mason City Globe-Gazette reports. That means there will be a full year and a half of “lasts” ahead — except the last football homecoming, because CAL already couldn’t field a football team and made an agreement with Clarion-Goldfield-Dows for 2016-17.
If not for the significant part of H-D in Butler County (Dumont and Aredale), “Central Franklin” would be a good school name, but since this is a one-way sharing agreement the current status of H-D is unlikely to change.