What’s left of what once was the Corwith-Wesley-Lu Verne school system \u2014\u00a0officially never consolidated but together for three decades \u2014 is probably going away soon.<\/p>\n
Algona and Lu Verne have formed a reorganization committee, Radio Iowa reports<\/a>. Realistically, this means the absorption of the Lu Verne district, which officially got most of C-W’s land in 2015 but maintained only an elementary for those students while CWL’s sixth grade and up went to Algona. Algona High School, never renamed, directly includes Burt, Titonka, and Whittemore, and through the present sharing agreement includes Corwith, Wesley, and Lu Verne.<\/p>\n Barring any shaving off of Lu Verne’s land to the south, the Algona district would be 550 square miles. It would be Iowa’s largest single-high-school unified district, but just a shade below MVAOCOU in single-high-school area (two districts) and Western Dubuque in overall area. For more about that, read my series from June 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n (NOTE: Present school\/district size numbers are slightly different from this 2014 blog post<\/a>, following a “2015-2016 School District Review Program (SDRP) effort through the U.S. Census Bureau” that allowed for digitally-pegged maps and more accurate area measurements. I don’t blame Western Dubuque for sticking with 555 square miles instead of 553.96, though.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What’s left of what once was the Corwith-Wesley-Lu Verne school system \u2014\u00a0officially never consolidated but together for three decades \u2014 is probably going away soon. Algona and Lu Verne have formed a reorganization committee, Radio Iowa reports. Realistically, this means … Continue reading