Ventura Community School District

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Ventura Community School District (VCSD) was a school district headquartered in Ventura, Iowa.

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The district served portions of Cerro Gordo and Hancock counties. [1]

History

School No. 3 was established in unincorporated Cerro Gordo County in 1870, but was later moved to Ventura after a successful but controversial referendum. The permanent Ventura Consolidated School was built in 1918; consolidation of the school districts meant that more students were assigned to the school. A Works Progress Administration (WPA) limestone gymnasium was built after the district paid for its construction in 1937; it was built beginning on June 20, 1939, with completion on July 27, 1940. The existing school was renamed as the Ventura Community School on July 1, 1954, and it received a north-end addition in 1957. A new elementary school was built after a $240,000 bond referendum passed on April 4, 1956, and it was dedicated on September 30, 1957. [1]

The Ventura and Clear Lake districts began having joint specialty high school classes in fall 1963. [1]

For a period the district shared specialized classes with the Garner–Hayfield Community School District. Beginning in 2012 the two districts began a whole grade-sharing program in which students from one district attended school in the other district, with high school students at Garner and with middle school students at Ventura. [2]

The election to determine whether the districts would merge was held on September 9, 2014, with 602–22 in Garner–Hayfield and 351–51 counts in Ventura favoring the merger. [3] Approval required each district to have over half of its constituents to vote in favor. [4] They merged into the new Garner–Hayfield–Ventura Community School District on July 1, 2015. [5]

Schools

It previously operated Ventura Elementary and Ventura Jr.-Sr. High School. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "History." Ventura Community School District. April 12, 2001. Retrieved on November 7, 2018.
  2. ↑ Schuessler, Arian (2012-08-20). "Garner-Hayfield, Ventura come together in first year of sharing". Globe Gazette . Retrieved 2018-11-07.
  3. ↑ Peter, Rebecca (2014-09-16). "G-H, Ventura voters approve school merger". The Leader . Retrieved 2018-11-07.
  4. ↑ Peter, Rebecca (2014-09-09). "Voters approve Garner-Hayfield / Ventura merger". The Leader . Retrieved 2018-11-07.
  5. ↑ "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on July 20, 2018.
  6. ↑ Info. Ventura Community School District. July 4, 1997. Retrieved on November 7, 2018.


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