North Fayette Community School District

Former school district in Iowa, USA

North Fayette Community School District was a school district headquartered in West Union, Iowa.

The district is located in sections of Fayette County, and served West Union, Fayette, and Hawkeye.^[1]

History

On July 1, 1984, the Fayette School District merged into the North Fayette School District.^[2]

The North Fayette district and the Valley Community School District began a grade-sharing arrangement, in which students of one school district attend another district's schools, in fall 2013.^[3] The two districts together had one middle school and one high school.^[4]

The merger vote for North Fayette and Valley was scheduled for Tuesday February 7, 2017.^[4] The North Fayette district residents voted in favor of the merger on a 504–17, or 97% in favor, while the Valley residents voted in favor on a 326-30 basis, or 92% in favor.^[5] On July 1, 2018, it merged into the Valley district to form the North Fayette Valley Community School District.^[2]

Schools

At one point the district had three elementary schools, one each in Fayette, Hawkeye, and West Union, as well as one middle school and one high school.^[6]

At a later period the district operated three schools: North Fayette Elementary School in Hawkeye, North Fayette Middle School in Fayette, and North Fayette High School in West Union.^[7]

References

^ "North Fayette." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on July 29, 2018.
^ ^a ^b "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on July 29, 2018.
^ Wind, Andrew (2018-07-01). "North Fayette Valley school district merger takes effect Sunday". Waterloo Courier. Retrieved 2018-07-29.
^ ^a ^b Fickau, Ethan (2017-02-02). "Staff and students weigh in on North Fayette Valley district merge". KCRG. Retrieved 2018-07-29. But the two districts are still separate and now a vote next week will determine if they will formally merge or not.[...]The vote will take place on Tuesday from noon to 8 p.m.
^ "Voters approve N. Fayette-Valley merger, offer mixed results on school bonds". KCRG. 2017-02-07. Retrieved 2018-07-29.
^ Home. North Fayette Community School District. September 29, 2002. Retrieved on July 29, 2018.
^ "North Fayette." Keystone Area Education Agency 1. May 29, 2012. Retrieved on July 29, 2018.

External links

North Fayette Community School District 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