Council Bluffs is functionally a three-high-school city. The Lewis Central district covers the city south of I-80 and old US 6 (McPherson Avenue), while the CB district proper has two high schools. The latter district extends north to the Honey Creek exit and includes the town of Crescent. Now that area of the Council Bluffs district north of the city is likely to lose its school, the Omaha World-Herald reports.
Besides declining enrollment, another factor is that dozens of students who should attend Crescent Elementary instead go to other schools in CB and elsewhere, the article says.
Much of the school is only a decade old, thanks to renovations and a gym built after a fire in 2006, the article says. Crescent by far covers the largest geographic area of any Council Bluffs elementary (PDF), but there just aren’t enough kids there.
Parents are actively trying to save the school, but the district will likely seal its fate at the end of the month.