| AHSTW Community School District | |
| Type: | Local school district |
| Grades: | K-12 |
| Established: | 2016 |
| Location: | [Avoca, Iowa] |
| Region: | Cass, Harrison, Pottawattamie, and Shelby counties |
| Country: | United States |
| Coordinates: | 41.469562, -95.341800 |
| Superintendent: | Darin Jones |
| Schools: | 1 |
| Budget: | $12,802,000(2020-21)[1] |
| Us Nces District Id: | 1904080 |
| Students: | 776 (2022-23) |
| Teachers: | 58.57 FTE |
| Staff: | 64.84 FTE |
| Ratio: | 13.25 |
| Mascot: | Vikings |
| Colors: | Red, White, and Blue |
A-H-S-T-W Community School District is a rural public school district headquartered in Avoca, Iowa.[2]
The district, with about 250sqmi of area,[3] serves sections of Cass, Harrison, Pottawattamie, and Shelby counties. It serves Avoca, Hancock, Shelby, Walnut, and much of Tennant.[4] The initials of the five cities form the name of the school district.[5]
It was formed by the merger of the A-H-S-T Community School District and the Walnut Community School District on July 1, 2016.[6] About 88% of the voters in the combined area favored consolidation in the vote.[3]
The initial school board was to be simply a combination of the existing A-H-S-T-W and Walnut districts, with a total of seven members: two from Walnut and the remainder from A-H-S-T-W. The prospective future board would have seven members, with two at-large and the remainder based on voting districts.[7] The proportion was set since the former Walnut district had about one-fourth of the population of the combined A-H-S-T-W district.[8]
The district operates three schools in a single facility in Avoca:[1]
Circa 2015, the middle school area of the A-H-S-T-W Secondary School building in Avoca was scheduled to receive an expansion. Now in 2023, they are adding on to the area of the A-H-S-T-W Secondary School area.[9]
The Vikings compete in the Western Iowa Conference in the following sports:[10]