Titonka Consolidated School District

Defunct school district in Iowa, United States

Titonka Consolidated School District was a school district headquartered in Titonka, Iowa, United States.^[1]

History

For much of its history the district operated elementary and middle school levels.^[1]

In 1989, Titonka began a program of sharing academic, athletic, and extracurricular activities with the Buffalo Center–Rake Community School District. On July 1, 1989, Titonka entered into a grade-sharing arrangement with the Buffalo-Rake, Lakota, and Thompson school districts, in which students from any one or two districts attended the other districts' schools for a particular grade level. Earlier that year those districts and the Woden–Crystal Lake Community School District held discussions about a comprehensive plan for their region. In 1992, the Buffalo Center–Rake and Lakota districts merged into the Buffalo Center–Rake–Lakota district. The grade-sharing arrangement with the new district was renewed for three years. While the successor district and Thompson attempted a merge, the Titonka district did not attempt a merger with them.^[2]

In 1995, the grade-sharing agreement with Buffalo Center–Rake–Lakota and Thompson expired, and instead Titonka began grade-sharing with Woden–Crystal Lake.^[2] The district sent its students to Woden–Crystal Lake for senior high school,^[3] while Titonka operated the joint junior high school, and both districts had their respective elementary schools.^[4] As a result of the agreement, schools were branded "Woden–Crystal Lake–Titonka Community School District" even though the two districts remained legally separate.^[5] In 2002 the Titonka K–8 school had about 200–225 students.^[4]

In 2007, the middle school section was renovated and an addition was installed.^[6]

In 2011, Titonka switched its high school grade-sharing to the Algona Community School District.^[7] Its grade-sharing agreement with the Algona district meant that Titonka would send students in grades 5–12 to Algona, and so the Titonka district became elementary only. In 2013, the residents of the Titonka district voted to consolidate their district altogether into the Algona district. The whole grade-sharing agreement was modified for 2013–14, the final school year, so that the Algona district only taught preschool and preschool preparation classes.^[8] On July 1, 2014, the Titonka district consolidated into the Algona district.^[9] The Algona district, which took control of the school building, was scheduled to sell it to the Titonka city government on January 12, 2015.^[10]

References

^ ^a ^b "AEA 3 Public and Parochial School Districts and Administrators." Lakeland Area Education Agency 3. February 4, 1998. Retrieved on July 22, 2018.
^ ^a ^b Dreier, William H.; Ronald Pilgrim (1995-10-06). "100 Years of Change for Better Schools: A Short Report of Buffalo Township, Winnebago County, Iowa and Its Schools from 1895 to 1995" (PDF). Education Resources Information Center. p. 9. Retrieved 2019-08-02.
^ "About Our Schools." Prairie Lakes Area Education Agency 8. April 4, 2005. Retrieved on July 22, 2018. "High School students to Woden-Crystal Lake Community School".
^ ^a ^b "Home." Titonka Consolidated School District. February 2, 2002. Retrieved on July 22, 2018.
^ "Home." Woden–Crystal Lake–Titonka Community School District (joint website of the Woden–Crystal Lake and Titonka districts). February 20, 2002. Retrieved on July 22, 2018.
^ Miller, Ashley (2014-03-06). "New uses considered for former Titonka school building". Globe Gazette. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
^ Nelson, Emilie (2011-05-25). "Woden-Crystal Lake-Titonka has final graduation". Forest City Summit. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
^ Countryman, Nathan (2013-04-18). "Titonka Elementary coming to Algona Schools". Globe Gazette. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
^ "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on July 20, 2018.
^ Countryman, Nathan (2015-01-08). "Titonka school building sale to be finalized this month". Globe Gazette. Retrieved 2018-07-22.

External links

Titonka Consolidated School District at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
Woden-Crystal Lake-Titonka School District at the Wayback Machine (archive index) (shared website for the Titonka district and the Woden-Crystal Lake district as part of their grade-sharing agreement)
Titonka Consolidated School District at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
Woden-Crystal Lake-Titonka High School 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