Category Archives: Schools

Jan 26

North Tama to play football in Des Moines metro area

Posted on Tuesday, January 26, 2016, at 10:15 AM by Jeff

North Tama’s new football district includes its southwesternmost opponents ever, extending down to a school in the village of Norwoodville. Where is Norwoodville, you ask? Well, it certainly was not a place I have mapped out in the recently updated … Continue reading →

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Jan 21

Lincoln Central was a zombie district for four years

Posted on Thursday, January 21, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Estherville-Lincoln Central, like many other small- to medium-sized school districts in Iowa, is consolidating all of its operations on one campus. In this case, there are separate buildings in one large area, and the newest addition will take the last … Continue reading →

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Jan 12

Adair-Casey losing its high school

Posted on Tuesday, January 12, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

(Here would be a good spot for a Duffy cartoon: The Adair water tower with a frowny face.) The school district that won the first two state championships in Iowa’s current 8-player-football classification is no longer able to continue on … Continue reading →

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Jan 08

North Tama smallest public school in 11-man football

Posted on Friday, January 8, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

The classifications (but not districts) for the next two years of Iowa high school football are out, and North Tama finds itself looking up. With 107 students in grades 9-11 (the “BEDS number”), North Tama will be the smallest public … Continue reading →

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Nov 25

Hamburg would like Farragut’s land

Posted on Wednesday, November 25, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

School districts in Fremont and western Page counties, from a state map of school levy rates. The town of Riverton is where Hamburg, Farragut, and Sidney meet. In light of last week’s decision by the state to nuke the Farragut … Continue reading →

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Nov 23

MMCRU: A quadrant unfilled

Posted on Monday, November 23, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

The combined Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn/Remsen-Union High School will be called… MMCRU. I thought there could have been a concession to Remsen-Union to give it the first part of the name, but overall in Iowa there’s only a handful of two-name/two-part districts where … Continue reading →

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Nov 21

Farragut is third forced dissolution in state history

Posted on Saturday, November 21, 2015, at 10:42 AM by Jeff

The Iowa Board of Education has ordered an end to the Farragut school district after multiple years of deficit spending and facilities not in compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act. This is the third overall state-mandated dissolution in Iowa’s … Continue reading →

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Nov 19

Division in a time for unity

Posted on Thursday, November 19, 2015, at 10:01 AM by Jeff

It has been my opinion that while nothing can easily soothe the feelings of a community that has lost its high school, winning a state championship in a major sport goes a long way toward healing rifts. But I’ve never … Continue reading →

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Nov 18

Two schools in large cities to be demolished

Posted on Wednesday, November 18, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

First, a story from the Muscatine Journal. The contents of the Jefferson school building were sold the first week of November, with demolition to follow. A replacement was built right beside the old building. Second, Walnut Grove Elementary in Council Bluffs will be … Continue reading →

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Nov 11

Gladbrook-Reinbeck dissolution petition advances; meeting tonight

Posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2015, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

The potential unprecedented self-immolation of an Iowa school district has taken a step forward. A petition to dissolve Gladbrook-Reinbeck has the necessary number of signatures for a referendum, most of which came from the Gladbrook area, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports. The dissolution … Continue reading →

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