Nishna Valley Community School District Explained

Nishna Valley Community School District was a school district headquartered in Hastings, Iowa. In its final days it operated Nishna Valley Elementary School and East Mills Middle School.^[1]

It formed on July 1, 1960. It went into a legal dispute with the Malvern Community School District over the possession of portions of the former Benton, Golden Hill, and Wearin school districts.^[2]

Circa 2007 it began a whole grade-sharing arrangement with the Malvern district in which children from both districts attended each other's schools in order to save money.^[3] East Mills High School was the consolidated high school of these districts.^[4]

On July 1, 2011, it merged with Malvern to form the East Mills Community School District.^[5] Voters in both districts approved the consolidation on a 6 to 1 basis in 2010; 19.2% of the registered voters in the districts, a total of 483 people, participated in that election.^[6]

Notes and References

1. "Contact Information." Nishna Valley Community School District. November 14, 2009. Retrieved on July 13, 2018.
2. "Nishna Valley Com. Sch. Dist. v. Malvern Com. Sch. Dist." Justia. 121 N.W.2d 646 (1963). Retrieved on July 13, 2018.
3. News: Stegmeir, Mary. More merging Iowa school districts on the horizon. Press Citizen. 2014-06-10. 2018-07-13. The East Mills district, formed in 2011 when the Malvern and Nishna Valley districts merged, [...] The western Iowa districts had participated in whole-grade sharing for four years before the reorganization..
4. https://web.archive.org/web/20080513190126/http://www.malvernschools.org/ Home
5. "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on July 20, 2018.
6. Web site: Stevens, Joel. Local school districts to merge after vote. Red Oak Express. 2010-12-14. 2018-07-13.