Pocahontas Area Community School District

Pocahontas Area Community School District (PAC) is a school district headquartered in Pocahontas, Iowa.

Pocahontas Area Community School District
Location
Pocahontas, Iowa Pocahontas, Calhoun, and Palo Alto counties United States
Coordinates	42.731840, -94.671942
District information
Type	Local school district
Grades	K-12
Established	1989
Superintendent	Joe Kramer
Schools	3
Budget	$11,182,000 (2015-16)[1]
NCES District ID	1923190 [1]
Students and staff
Students	713 [1](2018-19)
Teachers	57.40 FTE [1]
Staff	68.33 FTE [1]
Student–teacher ratio	12.42 [1]
Athletic conference	Twin Lakes
District mascot	Indians
Colors	Red, white and black
Other information
Website	www.pacsd.org

The district is mostly in Pocahontas County, with some parts in Calhoun County and very small sections in Palo Alto County. Communities served include Pocahontas, Havelock, Palmer, Plover, Pomeroy and Rolfe.[2]

As of 2018 it has about 900 students.[3]

History

On July 1, 1989, the Havelock-Plover School District consolidated into the Pocahontas School District, and the resulting district was the Pocahontas Area School District. On July 1, 1993, the Rolfe School District consolidated into the Pocahontas Area district.[4]

Ghan Consultants owner Guy Ghan prepared a 2007 report proposing the consolidation of Pocahontas Area and three other school districts, with a single high school west of Pocahontas, though the impetus for this would have been years away.[5]

Circa 2006, the district had 650 students, but circa 2012, there were around 500. At one point the Pocahontas district established a grade-sharing arrangement, in which one district sends its students to another district's school, with the Pomeroy–Palmer Community School District.[6] On July 1, 2012, the Pomeroy-Palmer district consolidated into the Pocahontas Area district.[4] The Pocahontas district kept the Pomeroy school open after the merger.[6]

The district began partial-day sharing, in which students from one district went to another district for some classes, with the Laurens-Marathon Community School District around 2015. In 2017, the L-M and Pocahontas districts began whole grade-sharing, in which one district sent its children to another district for certain grade levels.[7] As a result, Laurens-Marathon sent its high school students to Pocahontas high school.[8]

Schools

The current secondary building was built in the decade of the 2010s and is meant to be handicap accessible. The original secondary building was built in 1921 and was scheduled to be razed after the new building was complete.[6]

References

1. "Pocahontas Area Comm School District". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
2. "Pocahontas Area Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on July 20, 2018.
3. Home. Pocahontas Area Community School District. Retrieved on July 20, 2018. "The PAC school district serves approximately 900 students kindergarten through twelfth grade."
4. "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66 Archived 2019-02-09 at the Wayback Machine." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on July 20, 2018.
5. Oechslin, Russ (2007-04-20). "Four districts study sharing high school". Sioux City Journal. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
6. "Merger, new building for Pocahontas, IA school district". KTIV. Retrieved 2018-07-21.
7. Kaspari, Peter (2017-02-19). "Laurens-Marathon: Sharing". The Messenger. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
8. "Laurens-Marathon: Whole-grade sharing, The agreement is working". The Messenger. 2018-01-28. Retrieved 2018-07-20.

Further reading

• Maps of the school district before the Pomeroy–Palmer merger: Main, Detail on Rolfe

External links

• Pocahontas Area Community School District