Nishna Valley Community School District
Nishna Valley Community School District was a school district headquartered in Hastings, Iowa. In its final days it operated Nishna Valley Elementary School and East Mills Middle School.[1]
It formed on July 1, 1960. It went into a legal dispute with the Malvern Community School District over the possession of portions of the former Benton, Golden Hill, and Wearin school districts.[2]
Circa 2007 it began a whole grade-sharing arrangement with the Malvern district in which children from both districts attended each other's schools in order to save money.[3] East Mills High School was the consolidated high school of these districts.[4]
On July 1, 2011 it merged with Malvern to form the East Mills Community School District.[5] Voters in both districts approved the consolidation on a 6 to 1 basis in 2010; 19.2% of the registered voters in the districts, a total of 483 people, participated in that election.[6]
References
- "Contact Information." Nishna Valley Community School District. November 14, 2009. Retrieved on July 13, 2018.
- "Nishna Valley Com. Sch. Dist. v. Malvern Com. Sch. Dist." Justia. 121 N.W.2d 646 (1963). Retrieved on July 13, 2018.
- Stegmeir, Mary (2014-06-10). "More merging Iowa school districts on the horizon". Press Citizen. Retrieved 2018-07-13.
The East Mills district, formed in 2011 when the Malvern and Nishna Valley districts merged, [...] The western Iowa districts had participated in whole-grade sharing for four years before the reorganization.
- Home. Malvern Community School District. May 13, 2008. Retrieved on July 13, 2018.
- "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on July 20, 2018.
- Stevens, Joel (2010-12-14). "Local school districts to merge after vote". Red Oak Express. Retrieved 2018-07-13.