Ever since the Twin Rivers and Gilmore City-Bradgate school districts stopped sharing as Twin River Valley, the two have not been going it alone. GCB is in the far more precarious situation, engaging in whole-grade sharing with West Bend-Mallard even though their geographic connection is a thin strip. Twin Rivers has kept its school in Bode while sending higher grades to the much-larger Humboldt.
Now Twin Rivers and Humboldt are discussing consolidation. This was reported by WOI a month ago,* but I couldn’t find a second source until a survey page dedicated to the merger was set up a week ago from Twin Rivers’ Facebook site.
Geographically, it’s a slam-dunk fit, with most of Twin Rivers taking up the westernmost three of four townships in the northernmost tier of Humboldt County. Humboldt’s arm extending northeast is the spoils from Boone Valley’s dissolution in 1986. The sad trap, of course, is that “Efficient use of school buildings and facilities” as a potential benefit in the survey all but certainly means closure of the school in Bode with all students going to Humboldt.
Maybe, as with Van Buren and Harmony, Twin Rivers could at least nudge a name change to Humboldt County Community School District.