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South Central Calhoun Community School District is a school district headquartered inside South Central Calhoun Middle School in Rockwell City, Iowa.[1]

The district is mostly in Calhoun County but also has sections in Carroll, Greene, and Sac counties. It serves Rockwell City, Jolley, Lake City, Lohrville, Lytton, Yetter, and much of Lanesboro.[2]

The district operates three schools: South Central Calhoun Elementary School in Rockwell City, South Central Calhoun Middle, and South Central Calhoun High School in Lake City.[1] As of 2014 it had 900 students.[3]

History

The district formed on July 1, 2014 from the merger of the Rockwell City-Lytton Community School District and the Southern Cal Community School District.[4] In 2009 the predecessor districts decided to begin sharing athletics and secondary grades, in which students from both districts attended each other districts' schools,[5] and by 2012-2013 all grade levels became shared. On Tuesday February 5, 2013 the districts held an election on whether they would consolidate.[6] The vote to consolidate was successful, with a 253-67 count in Rockwell City-Lytton and 340-86 in Southern Calhoun; a total of 746 people voted.[7]

Jeff Kruse, who previously was the shared superintendent of the two predecessor districts,[8] was the first superintendent; that year the East Sac County Community School District requested that the South Central Calhoun district share its superintendent with them. The South Central Calhoun leadership decided against this since it did not wish to suggest that it would eventually merge with another district so quickly after the district had formed; under Iowa law a district may only do grade-sharing with another district adjacent to it, and Iowa residents often see grade-sharing as an indication that a merger will eventually occur. However non-contiguous districts may share superintendents, and South Central Calhoun entered a superintendent-sharing agreement with a non-contiguous district, Laurens-Marathon Community School District.[3] Kruse was scheduled to leave at the end of the 2016-2017 school year.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b Home. South Central Calhoun Community School District. Retrieved on July 18, 2018. "South Central Calhoun Middle School 1000 Tonawanda Street Rockwell City, IA 50579" and "at South Central Calhoun CSD, 1000 Tonawanda Avenue, Rockwell City, IA 50579"
  2. ^ "South Central Calhoun." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on July 18, 2018.
  3. ^ a b "East Sac, South Central will not share superintendent". Daily Times Herald. 2014-05-14. Retrieved 2018-07-18. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  4. ^ "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on July 20, 2018.
  5. ^ "Two NW IA districts agree to combine athletics, high schools, junior high grades". Radio Iowa. 2009-12-23. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  6. ^ "Vote to combine school districts is Tuesday". Daily Times Herald. 2013-02-04. Retrieved 2018-07-19. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help) - Date from here
  7. ^ "School districts approve mergers". Daily Times Herald. 2013-02-06. Retrieved 2018-07-19. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  8. ^ "Kruse to leave SCC, L-M districts". The Messenger. 2017-02-09. Retrieved 2018-07-19. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help) - The article says "Jeff Kruse has been with the South Central Calhoun School District since 2011,[...]" but the district did not legally exist until 2014, so that means he was the shared superintendent of the predecessor districts who were sharing superintendents under the name "South Central Calhoun"
  9. ^ "South Central Calhoun: Facility improvements". The Messenger. 2017-02-19. Retrieved 2018-07-19. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)


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