Finishing a miniseries of school bond blog posts, I suppose.
A proposal to consolidate elementary schools in the MOC-FV school district would result in one town losing its school.
A story on KTIV says the district is proposing a new building on the east side of Orange City (the story says “between Alton and Orange City” but the towns are three miles apart). The district’s two elementary facilities are in Hospers, on IA 60, and Orange City, the original school in the middle of town.
This is not a case of fewer students; instead it is a case of steady growth and outgrowth. Sioux and Lyon counties have the only cluster of rural districts in Iowa that have gained students this century. But the $37 million bond issue would still result in Hospers losing its school.