IKM Community School District

Defunct school district in Iowa, United States

IKM Community School District was a school district headquartered in Manilla.^[1] The district name referred to the municipalities of Irwin, Kirkman, and Manilla.^[2] In addition to the aforementioned cities, it also served Aspinwall.^[3]

History

It was formed on July 1, 1992, by the merger of the Irwin and Manilla school districts.^[4]

In fall 2008 the IKM district and the Manning Community School District began whole grade-sharing, in which one district sent its students to another district's school for the whole day. This arrangement meant that the two districts consolidated their students into each other's schools.^[5]

On July 1, 2011, it merged with the Manning district to form the IKM–Manning Community School District.^[4] The merger vote, held on Tuesday April 6, 2010, was in favor of consolidation: the vote tallies were 206–26 at the Irwin polling station and 190–20 at the Manilla polling station, while in Manning the tally was 477–20.^[6]

During the consolidation process, the IKM and Manning school boards continued to operate while a temporary joint school board was also set up.^[7]

Schools

The district operated an elementary school in Irwin,^[8] and a high school in Manilla.^[9]

Irwin Consolidated School was formerly in operation.

References

^ "IKM School Board." IKM School District. July 1, 2007. Retrieved on July 17, 2018. "School Board meetings are held in the Superintendent's office at the Manilla Center[...]"
^ "Youth & Schools." City of Manning. Retrieved on July 17, 2018.
^ "IKM Community and Manning Community School District: Preliminary Director Districts Plan." Iowa Secretary of State. Retrieved on July 17, 2018. Note the school district boundary, which is not the same as the director district boundary.
^ ^a ^b "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66 Archived 2018-06-19 at the Wayback Machine." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on July 20, 2018.
^ "Education." City of Manilla. Retrieved on July 17, 2018.
^ "Manning-IKM consolidation wins approval". Carroll Daily Times Herald. 2010-04-07. Archived from the original on 2018-07-17. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
^ Wiser, Mike (2011-03-07). "Schools in small towns continue to consolidate". The Waterloo Courier. Waterloo, Iowa. pp. A1, A11. - Clipping of first (see graphic) and of second page at Newspapers.com.
^ "IKM Elementary." IKM Community School District. February 10, 2003. Retrieved on July 17, 2018.
^ "I-K-M High School." IKM Community School District. February 10, 2003. Retrieved on July 17, 2018.

External links

IKM Community School District at the Wayback Machine (archive index)

Defunct school districts in Iowa since 1965–1966

Most of the districts were merged after public votes. Dissolutions, most also the result of public votes, are in italics, and involuntary dissolutions done by the Iowa State Board of Education are marked with asterisks (*).

1960s