Woden–Crystal Lake Community School District

Defunct school district in Iowa, United States

Woden–Crystal Lake Community School District (W-CL) was a school district headquartered in Crystal Lake, Iowa.^[1] It served Crystal Lake and Woden.

History

Circa 1992 the Woden–Crystal Lake district began sharing administrative services and employees with the Forest City Community School District.^[2]

For much of its history, the Titonka Consolidated School District sent its students to the Woden–Crystal Lake–Titonka High School for senior high school,^[3] while Titonka operated the joint junior high school, and both districts had their respective elementary schools, with Woden–Crystal Lake's elementary being in Woden. As a result of the agreement, schools were branded "Woden–Crystal Lake–Titonka Community School District" even though the two districts remained legally separate.^[4] In 2011, Woden–Crystal Lake shifted its grade-sharing to the Forest City district, while Titonka switched its grade-sharing to the Algona district. Therefore, Woden–Crystal closed Woden–Crystal Lake–Titonka High School.^[5] As a result, preschool through first grade remained at the Crystal City school while other grade levels were sent to Forest City.^[6]

The leaderships of the Woden–Crystal Lake and Forest City districts prepared for an election which would merge the districts into one. 270 W-CL residents submitted a petition instead asking for the district to be dissolved and broken into pieces given to multiple surrounding districts.^[2] Using a petition asking for a consolidation, Area Education Agency 267 approved the vote, with a preliminary election date of September 11, 2012.^[7] On July 1, 2013, the Woden–Crystal Lake district consolidated into the Forest City district.^[8]

References

^ "Contact." Woden–Crystal Lake Community School District. March 5, 2012. Retrieved on July 22, 2018. "120 5th Street East, [...] Crystal Lake, Iowa 50432"
^ ^a ^b Yost, Rae (2012-02-01). "Woden-Crystal Lake patrons petition to dissolve school district". Globe Gazette. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
^ "About Our Schools." Prairie Lakes Area Education Agency 8. April 4, 2005. Retrieved on July 22, 2018. "High School students to Woden–Crystal Lake Community School".
^ "Home." Woden–Crystal Lake-Titonka Community School District (joint website of the Woden–Crystal Lake and Titonka districts). February 20, 2002. Retrieved on July 22, 2018.
^ Nelson, Emilie (2011-05-25). "Woden-Crystal Lake-Titonka has final graduation". Forest City Summit. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
^ Nicklay, Deb (2012-03-31). "Woden-Crystal Lake, Forest City to hold hearing about reorganization". Globe Gazette. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
^ Yost, Rae (2012-04-04). "Public vote OK'd on Forest City, W-CL reorganization". Globe Gazette. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
^ "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on July 20, 2018.

External links

Woden-Crystal Lake-Titonka School District at the Wayback Machine (archive index) (shared website for the Titonka district and the Woden–Crystal Lake district as part of their grade-sharing agreement)
Woden-Crystal Lake-Titonka High School at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
FC-WCL Reorganization Information at the Wayback Machine (archive index) - Forest City Community School District

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