Nora Springs–Rock Falls Community School District

School district in Nora Springs, Iowa

Nora Springs–Rock Falls Community School District was a school district headquartered in Nora Springs, Iowa, United States, serving that city and Rock Falls. It operated a single school serving all grades.^[1]

In 2007 it enacted a whole grade sharing program with the North Central Community School District.^[2] The NS-RF school board voted unanimously to accept the proposal on June 19, 2006,^[3] and the two districts formally signed the grade sharing agreement on July 20, 2006. Nora Springs began hosting a combined middle school while Manly began hosting a combined high school.^[4] The superintendent of North Central, Bruce Burton, used the North Butler schools' (of Greene CSD and Allison–Bristow CSD, now North Butler CSD) 28E agreement as a model for consolidation during the merger discussions.^[5] Teachers largely supported the consolidation as it meant students would have a larger variety of classes and the teachers would have fewer subjects to prepare for.^[6]

The vote to merge the districts, held on September 14, 2010,^[7] was successful. North Central voters supported the merger with a 431–63 (85.35%) majority, while Nora Springs–Rock Falls voters did so with 262-175 (59.95%) majority.^[8] On July 1, 2011, it officially merged with the North Central district to form the Central Springs Community School District.^[9]

References

^ Home. Nora Springs-Rock Falls Community School District. February 28, 2001. Retrieved on January 6, 2019. "This is a view of part of our K-12 facility located at 509 North Iowa Avenue in Nora Springs, Iowa."
^ Nicklay, Deb (2010-06-19). "Public hearing June 22 for merger of Central Springs". Globe Gazette. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
^ Buehner, Kristin (2006-06-20). "NS-RF opts to share with North Central". Globe Gazette. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
^ Nicklay, Deb (2006-07-22). "North Central, NS-RF sign sharing deal". Globe Gazette. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
^ Buehner, Kristin (2006-08-25). "Schools look for ways to smooth sharing transition". Globe Gazette. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
^ Nicklay, Deb (2006-05-31). "Teachers support whole-grade sharing". Globe Gazette. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
^ "Central Springs merger vote Sept. 14". Globe Gazette. 2010-07-22. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
^ Buehner, Kristin (2010-09-14). "Six school districts merge into three after voting". Globe Gazette. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
^ "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on January 6, 2019.

External links

Nora Springs-Rock Falls 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