Category Archives: Schools

On the grounds where the Ferguson school used to stand in Marshall County, a class ring was lost in 1961. The ring’s original owner and the boyfriend who lost it still got married. Earlier this month, someone with a metal … Continue reading →

Manson was one of the stops on WHO sports’ RVTV week before the Iowa-Iowa State game. The station did a feature on Manson-Northwest Webster. Although the districts began whole-grade sharing in 1990 and consolidated in 1993, the first appearance of … Continue reading →

If you’ve read my Substack post from Monday, don’t spoil the reveal for those who will only see it after seeing today’s post.

August 24, 2022: The backside of the South Page school faces the main road through town. This view does not show the clock tower. The South Page school district won’t have a traditional high school this year, but it’s not … Continue reading →

For the third time in four years, the IKM-Manning school district is trying to close the building in Irwin by building an addition in Manning. At a meeting in July, the board approved a vote for November, the Carroll Times … Continue reading →

It’s not ABCWLT, but it could have been. Algona-Burt-Corwith-Wesley-Lu Verne-Titonka, but officially just Algona Community, becomes Iowa’s largest consolidated single-high-school district on July 1. Western Dubuque remains larger, barely, and MVAOCOU is two separate districts, for now. A district that … Continue reading →

Let’s go rollin’ on the Turkey and Wapsipinicon rivers. Due to it name(s), the reorganization history of the school district headquartered in Elkader was elusive. First, Elkader and Littleport voted to form the Consolidated Center School District (Clayton County Register, … Continue reading →

Information on schools in the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City area covers enough time and space that it was best to pull them out into their own post. Dates are from Cedar Rapids Gazette articles. Toddville merged with Alburnett in 1954 (1/24/54), … Continue reading →

October 15, 2021: “Crescent Elementary School is the heart of the community,” the Council Bluffs district says on a webpage that probably won’t exist by this time next year. Crescent Elementary had its final day May 25. The student population … Continue reading →

The Iowa Legislature’s push to limit yearly growth of property taxes, signed by the governor in the last week of the session, includes a change that affects school bond issues. Until now, a bond referendum could be held at any … Continue reading →