Rockwell-Swaledale Community School District

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Rockwell-Swaledale Community School District was a school district headquartered in Rockwell, Iowa. [1] Located in Cerro Gordo County, it served Rockwell and Swaledale. [2]

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History

The district was formed in 1960 by the merger of the Rockwell Community School District and the Swaledale Community School District. [3]

In fall 2004 Rockwell-Swaledale entered into a whole grade-sharing agreement, in which students from one school district attend another district's schools for certain levels, with the Sheffield-Chapin Community School District and the Meservey-Thornton Community School District, at the high school level; the Rockwell-Swaledale and Sheffield-Chapin-Meservey-Thornton high schools at the time remained separate but shared students and programs. The Sheffield-Chapin and Meservey-Thornton school districts, which had already entered into their own whole grade-sharing agreement with one another, legally merged into the Sheffield-Chapin-Meservey-Thornton (SCMT) Community School District in 2007. [4]

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Circa 2008 Rockwell-Swaledale began a new whole grade-sharing agreement with SCMT as "West Fork Schools". [5] In 2010 voters of the two districts formally agreed to merge, with Rockwell-Swaledale district residents approving it on a 253-201 basis, or 55%, while SCMT voters approved on a 501-42 basis, or 92.27%. [6] On July 1, 2011 it merged with SCMT to form the West Fork Community School District. [7]

The West Fork Community School District is a consolidated school district in Iowa, with campuses in Rockwell and Sheffield. It resides in sections of Cerro Gordo and Franklin counties, with smaller portions in Hancock and Wright counties. The district is for students residing in the communities of Rockwell, Sheffield, Swaledale, Meservey, Thornton, Dougherty, and Chapin.

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References

  1. ↑ "District Info." Rockwell-Swaledale Community School District. December 6, 2002. Retrieved on January 13, 2019. "Rockwell-Swaledale Community School District 210 2nd Street South Rockwell IA, 50469"
  2. ↑ "Rockwell-Swaledale Community School District." Iowa Secretary of State. Retrieved on January 13, 2019. Detail map for Rockwell.
  3. ↑ "District History". West Fork Community School District . Retrieved 2019-01-13.
  4. ↑ "District History". West Fork Community School District. Retrieved 2019-01-13. - The page notes that the reorganization into the West Fork CSD, meaning when the district legally appeared as a single school district, was in 2011.
  5. ↑ Nicklay, Deb (2010-05-05). "RS-SCMT merger advances". Globe Gazette . Retrieved 2019-01-13. The two districts, which operate under the name West Fork, have been whole-grade sharing partners for two years.
  6. ↑ Buehner, Kristin (2010-09-14). "Six school districts merge into three after voting". Globe Gazette . Retrieved 2019-01-13.
  7. ↑ "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on January 13, 2019.
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