Garnavillo Community School District

Former school district in Iowa

Garnavillo Community School District was a school district headquartered in Garnavillo, Iowa. In addition to Garnavillo it served Clayton, Buck Creek, Clayton Center, and National, as well as areas around Garber.^[1]

History

Education in the Garnavillo area began with a German Lutheran school established in 1844. In 1847 the State of Iowa mandated that communities establish schools if they had at least fifty families, and so Garnavillo established a public school. The Garnavillo public school received expansions after other districts consolidated into Garnavillo. A separate secondary school building opened in 1962.^[1]

In December 1999 the district and the Guttenberg Community School District agreed to begin whole-grade-sharing (in which students from one district attend another district's schools for a particular grade level) in 2001.^[2] The district began sharing athletic teams with Garnavillo in 2000. The whole grade-sharing began as scheduled in 2001.^[3] The districts combined their secondary schools, with the high school in Guttenberg and the middle school in Garnavillo. The two retained their respective elementary schools.^[4]

On September 14, 2004, an election on merging the two districts into one was held, with Guttenberg district voters approving it 396–19, and Garnavillo district voters approving it 188–20.^[5] The merger into the Clayton Ridge Community School District was effective July 1, 2005.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b "History." Garnavillo Community School District. May 29, 2000. Retrieved on February 24, 2019. While Garber is mentioned as being a sending community to Garavillo schools, the town itself is now shown as part of a different district, Central School District.
^ "“Pilgrims and the Transition of Change”, by Dr. Russell Loven, Superintendent of Schools." Guttenberg Community School District. Retrieved on February 23, 2019.
^ "About Us Archived 2019-02-24 at the Wayback Machine." Clayton Ridge Community School District. Retrieved on February 23, 2019.
^ "Whole Grade Sharing Decision by Russell Loven, Superintendent of School." Guttenberg Community School District. Retrieved on February 23, 2019.
^ "Guttenberg and Garnavillo schools to merge". Radio Iowa. 2004-09-15. Retrieved 2019-02-23.
^ "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66 Archived 2019-02-09 at the Wayback Machine." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on February 23, 2019.

External links

Garnavillo Schools at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
Garnavillo 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