Thompson Community School District

Thompson Community School District was a school district serving Thompson, Iowa.

On July 1, 1989, it entered into a grade-sharing arrangement with the Buffalo Center-Rake, Lakota and Titonka school districts; earlier that year those districts and the Woden–Crystal Lake Community School District held discussions about a comprehensive plan for their region. In 1992, the Buffalo Center-Rake and Lakota districts merged into the Buffalo Center-Rake-Lakota district. The grade-sharing relationship continued with the single successor district, Thompson, and Titonka, with the agreement to last for three years.

While the successor district and Thompson attempted a merge, the Titonka district did not attempt a merger with them. In November 1994, the residents of the Buffalo Center-Rake-Lakota school district and the Thompson school district voted on whether they should consolidate into a single district; the Titonka district community did not attempt to join the merger. The residents of the Thompson district voted down that merger. Instead the Buffalo Center-Rake-Lakota and Thompson districts continued grade-sharing for the 1995–1996 school year. The Titonka district changed its grade-sharing partner to Woden–Crystal Lake. In November 1995, the second merger referendum for Buffalo Center-Rake-Lakota and Thompson occurred; this one succeeded. On July 1, 1996, it finally merged with Buffalo Center-Rake-Lakota, to become the North Iowa Community School District.

References

• Dreier, William H.; Ronald Pilgrim (1995-10-06). "100 Years of Change for Better Schools: A Short Report of Buffalo Township, Winnebago County, Iowa and Its Schools from 1895 to 1995" (PDF). Education Resources Information Center.