Prescott Community School District

Defunct school district in Iowa, United States

Prescott Community School District was a school district headquartered in Prescott, Iowa, United States. It had a single school, Prescott Community School.

History

The school building was built in 1914 and the district was established that year.^[1]

In the 1990s the Prescott district closed its secondary school and only served elementary school; it sent secondary students to other school districts.^[2]

In the 2014–2015 school year, the school's final year of operation, the elementary school had 34 students. In 2013 the members of the Prescott school board began discussing proposals to consolidate with other area school districts. The election determining whether the district would consolidate with the Creston Community School District was held on April 7, 2015.^[3] After the consolidation vote passed, the district property was put up for sale. The district was in operation for the 2015–2016 school year, but all of its students attended other districts' schools.^[2]

On July 1, 2016, the Prescott district merged into the Creston district.^[4]

Property

The district had a total of 8 acres (3.2 ha) of land, including two school buildings, a playground, a gymnasium, a running track, and a bus barn.^[2]

References

^ "Prescott and Creston School consolidation update". Creston News. 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2018-07-30.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Prescott School Buildings For Sale as District Consolidates with Creston". WHO-TV. 2016-02-09. Retrieved 2018-07-30.
^ Poolman, Bailey (2015-04-07). "Unofficial results: Creston, Prescott school consolidation passes". Creston News Advertiser. Retrieved 2018-07-30.
^ "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66 Archived 2019-02-09 at the Wayback Machine." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on July 29, 2018.

External links

Prescott Community School District (prescott.k12.ia.us) at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
Prescott Community School District (prescottschool.org) at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
Prescott Community School District (ipserv2.aea14.k12.ia.us:80/SWP/jkrauth/Julie.html) at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
PRESCOTT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORTS BASIC FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION SCHEDULE OF FINDINGS June 30, 2006
Map showing former Prescott district boundary shape

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