April 17, 2015: Waterville Elementary, on X32 in Allamakee County, has an old-school gym (pun mostly intended) to go with its 1922 building. Trophies inside recall the days when this was a high school.
We had made it nearly half the school year without me finding news of any impending school closures (the multidecade process proposed for Cedar Rapids doesn’t count).
But now the Allamakee School District is thinking about closing its only building outside of Waukon, Waterville Elementary. Enrollment is less than a third of what it was 20 years ago. The 85-year-old building is going to need a new roof and boiler soon, the KWWL story says. The school board will make its decision next week.