Clearfield Community School District Explained

Clearfield Community School District was a school district headquartered in Clearfield, Iowa. It operated one school: Clearfield Community School.

In 2014 the district had a total of 27 students.^[1]

Due to a declining financial situation, the district leadership attempted to find another school district willing to do a consolidation, but it could not find a willing merger partner.^[2] The voters approved a proposal to dissolve the district.^[1] Four other school districts absorbed pieces of the Clearfield district:^[2] Bedford, Diagonal, Lenox, and Mt Ayr.^[3] The dissolution was effective July 1, 2014.^[4]

Further reading

• Web site: Anderson, Christopher L.. School District Reorganization in Iowa: Considerations for Administrators, School Boards, and Communities (PhD thesis). Drake University. November 2009.

External links

• Clearfield Community School District

Notes and References

1. Web site: Stegmeir, Mary (Des Moines Register). More merging Iowa school districts on the horizon. Iowa City Press-Citizen. 2014-06-10. 2018-06-20.
2. Web site: Duffy, Molly. Iowa school districts cope with when to consolidate - and when to stand alone. Cedar Rapids Gazette. 2018-02-13. 2018-06-20.
3. "District Dissolution ." Clearfield Community School District. Retrieved on June 20, 2018.
4. "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66 ." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on July 20, 2018.