Sheffield-Chapin-Meservey-Thornton Community School District

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Sheffield-Chapin-Meservey-Thornton (SCMT) Community School District was a school district headquartered in Sheffield, Iowa, [1] serving Sheffield, Chapin, Meservey, and Thornton. [2]

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History

It formed on July 1, 2007 as the result of the merger between the Sheffield-Chapin Community School District and the Meservey-Thornton Community School District. [3] Those two districts began a whole-grade sharing agreement, in which students from one school district attend another district's schools for certain levels, in 1988, and these two districts together entered into a whole grade-sharing agreement with the Rockwell-Swaledale Community School District at the high school level in 2004. [4]

The district did not have an election in 2007, even though other area districts did, as it had just merged and already formed a new school board. [5]

Circa 2008 it began a new whole-grade sharing agreement with the Rockwell-Swaledale as "West Fork Schools". [6] 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%. [7] On July 1, 2011 it merged with Rockwell-Swaledale to form the West Fork Community School District. [3]

Schools

The district had a single SCMT Elementary School, which had 20 employees and 160 students in early 2008. [8]

The common high school pre-July 2008 was SCMT Community High School. [9]

Upon its formation SCMT received the Thornton School, a 1936 building which received extra classrooms, office space, a gymnasium, and a library in a 1955 addition. Thornton had been a combined elementary and junior high school since 1988 as a result of the SCMT grade-sharing agreement. [10] The grade-shared Thornton school retained the Lancers as a mascot, but the mascot now only retained to junior high school teams as the school no longer covered high school. As the SCMT district legally formed in 2007, the Lancers mascot was now no longer in use. [11] SCMT closed the Thornton School in July 2008. The Thornton school was demolished in 2012 by the Dumont company Peterson Backhoe; the SCMT district chose demolition after a tentative agreement for another party to buy the building fell through in 2009. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ Home. SCMT Community School District. May 12, 2005. Retrieved on January 13, 2019. "SCMT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT 504 PARK ST SHEFFIELD IA 50475"
  2. ↑ Home. SCMT High School. March 2, 2001. Retrieved on January 13, 2019.
  3. 1 2 "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on January 13, 2019.
  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. ↑ "Nine contested races in school elections". Globe Gazette . 2007-08-02. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ Buehner, Kristin (2010-09-14). "Six school districts merge into three after voting". Globe Gazette . Retrieved 2019-01-13.
  8. ↑ "Elementary School." SCMT Community School district. April 14, 2008. Retrieved on January 13, 2019.
  9. ↑ "High School." SCMT Community School district. April 13, 2008. Retrieved on January 13, 2019.
  10. 1 2 "Thornton School being demolished". Globe Gazette . 2012-04-17. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
  11. ↑ "Community History." City of Thornton. December 7, 2013. Retrieved on January 14, 2019.
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