Van Buren Community School District

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Van Buren Community School District is a school district headquartered in Keosauqua, Iowa, United States. [1]

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It serves sections of Van Buren and Davis counties. The district serves the following incorporated communities: Keosauqua, Birmingham, Cantril, Milton, and Stockport. It also served two census-designated places in unincorporated Van Buren County; Douds and Leando. [2]

History

On July 1, 2004, the Fox Valley Community School District merged into the Van Buren district. [3]

In January 2016 the Harmony district and the Harmony Community School District agreed to begin a grade-sharing arrangement in which Harmony-zoned students attended Van Buren schools for grades 7–12. [4] This arrangement began in fall 2016. The Harmony district's junior and senior high school closed the previous spring. [5]

Impetus to merge came to changes on how the Iowa state government gave money to schools as well as decreasing numbers of students. [6] In January 2018 the administrations of the Van Buren and Harmony districts began to consider merging. In February 2018 83% of the voters in the Van Buren and Harmony districts voted to merge, with 94% (of 637 voters) in favor in the pre-merger Van Buren district and 72% (of 619 voters) in favor in the pre-merger Harmony district. [7]

The requirement for a merge was for both districts to each have over 50% of voters in favor. [8]

There was a single superintendent and school board for both areas beginning on July 1, 2019. [7] On that day the Van Buren County Community School District formed. [9]

Schools

List of schools: [10]

There was a middle school in Stockport, but in 2011 Van Buren CSD school board chose to close that building and move the middle school to Keosauqua. The vote was a 4-2 basis, [12] and done to reduce expenses. [13]

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References

  1. ↑ "Home". Van Buren Community School District. 2019-02-28. Archived from the original on 2019-02-28. Retrieved 2020-04-05. 807 1st Street Keosauqua, IA 52565
  2. ↑ "VAN BUREN." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on June 20, 2018. - See also Map of Douds and map of Leando from the 2010 U.S. Census, U.S. Census Bureau
  3. ↑ "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965–66." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on February 25, 2019.
  4. ↑ Aguirre, Joey (2016-01-31). "Harmony/Van Buren make whole grade sharing official". The Hawk Eye . Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  5. ↑ Aguirre, Joey (2016-05-23). "Harmony sends off its final graduating class". The Hawk Eye . Retrieved 2018-06-20.
  6. ↑ "Voters approve consolidation of two Iowa school districts". Newton Daily News . 2018-02-08. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  7. 1 2 Niehaus, Michaele (2018-02-06). "Van Buren, Harmony to merge". The Hawk Eye . Retrieved 2018-06-20.
  8. ↑ Niehaus-Steffensmeier, Michaele (2018-01-14). "Voters could derail consolidation of districts". The Hawkeye . Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  9. ↑ "Iowa Educational Directory 2019-2020 School Year" (PDF). Iowa Department of Education. p. 175. Retrieved 2020-04-05. (PDF p. 177/186) - From section "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66"
  10. ↑ "Van Buren Community School District." Southern Prairie Area Education Agency 15. May 10, 1997. Retrieved on June 20, 2018.
  11. ↑ "Van Buren Community School District." Southern Prairie Area Education Agency 15. May 10, 1997. Retrieved on June 20, 2018.
  12. ↑ Hassanali, Zoheb (2011-03-17). "Stockport Middle School to close". KTVO . Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  13. ↑ Deffenbaugh, Greg (2011-06-02). "Southeast Iowa middle school closing". KTVO . Retrieved 2020-04-05.

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