Deep River–Millersburg Community School District (DR-M) was a school district headquartered in Millersburg, Iowa. It served that community and Deep River.[1] It was located in portions of Iowa and Poweshiek counties.[2]
It formed in the 1958 consolidation of the Deep River and Millersburg schools. Initially the Millersburg school building housed all levels except grades K–4, which were in Deep River. At a later point upper elementary grades were moved to Deep River.[3]
Secondary enrollment was declining in the period prior to 1992.[3] It closed its junior and senior high school divisions, when it signed a grade-sharing agreement with both the English Valleys Community School District and the Montezuma Community School District; post-1992 its students selected one of two schools for their secondary schooling.[4] The district also closed the Deep River school and consolidated all of its students at Millersburg after deeming the latter to have a superior layout.[3]
On July 1, 2009, the district was consolidated into the English Valleys district, although a portion of it was given to the Montezuma district.[5] English Valleys took possession of the remaining school building in Millersburg and did not immediately decide what to do with it.[6] In December 2009 it remained empty, and there were potential plans to convert the building into transitional housing for poor families or those affected by domestic violence.[7]