Valley Community School District

Defunct school district in Iowa, United States

Valley Community School District was a school district headquartered in Elgin, Iowa.^[1] The district was located in sections of Fayette and Clayton counties, and served Elgin, Clermont, and Wadena.^[2]

History

The Valley district and the North Fayette Community School District began a grade-sharing arrangement, in which students of one school district attend another district's schools, in fall 2013.^[3] The two districts together had one middle school and one high school.^[4]

The merger vote for North Fayette and Valley was scheduled for Tuesday February 7, 2017.^[4] The North Fayette district residents voted in favor of the merger on a 504–17, or 97% in favor, while the Valley residents voted in favor on a 326-30 basis, or 92% in favor.^[5] On July 1, 2018, it merged into the North Fayette district to form the North Fayette Valley Community School District.^[6]

Schools

Clermont previously had a school building, Clermont Public School, built circa 1913, which closed in 1990. Now named the Larrabee Building, it houses administrative offices of the city government and a library. Jason Clayworth and Charles Litchfield of the Des Moines Register described it as "richly decorated in marble".^[7]

References

^ Home. Valley Community School District. January 25, 2002. Retrieved on July 29, 2018.
^ "Valley." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on July 29, 2018.
^ Wind, Andrew (2018-07-01). "North Fayette Valley school district merger takes effect Sunday". Waterloo Courier. Retrieved 2018-07-29.
^ ^a ^b Fickau, Ethan (2017-02-02). "Staff and students weigh in on North Fayette Valley district merge". KCRG. Retrieved 2018-07-29. But the two districts are still separate and now a vote next week will determine if they will formally merge or not.[...]The vote will take place on Tuesday from noon to 8 p.m.
^ "Voters approve N. Fayette-Valley merger, offer mixed results on school bonds". KCRG. 2017-02-07. Retrieved 2018-07-29.
^ "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on July 29, 2018.
^ Clayworth, Jason; Litchfield, Charles (2015-03-21). "Make or break: Vacant schools test Iowa". Des Moines Register. Retrieved 2018-09-15.

External links

Valley 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