Van Buren Community School District is a school district headquartered in Keosauqua, Iowa, United States.[1]
It serves sections of Van Buren and Davis counties. The district serves the following incorporated communities: Keosauqua, Birmingham, Cantril, Milton, and Stockport. It also served two census-designated placesinunincorporated Van Buren County; Douds and Leando.[2]
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On July 1, 2004, the Fox Valley Community School District merged into the Van Buren district.[3]
In January 2016 the Harmony district and the Harmony Community School District agreed to begin a grade-sharing arrangement in which Harmony-zoned students attended Van Buren schools for grades 7–12.[4] This arrangement began in fall 2016. The Harmony district's junior and senior high school closed the previous spring.[5]
Impetus to merge came to changes on how the Iowa state government gave money to schools as well as decreasing numbers of students.[6] In January 2018 the administrations of the Van Buren and Harmony districts began to consider merging. In February 2018 83% of the voters in the Van Buren and Harmony districts voted to merge, with 94% (of 637 voters) in favor in the pre-merger Van Buren district and 72% (of 619 voters) in favor in the pre-merger Harmony district.[7]
The requirement for a merge was for both districts to each have over 50% of voters in favor.[8]
There was a single superintendent and school board for both areas beginning on July 1, 2019.[7] On that day the Van Buren County Community School District formed.[9]
List of schools:[10]
There was a middle school in Stockport, but in 2011 Van Buren CSD school board chose to close that building and move the middle school to Keosauqua. The vote was a 4-2 basis,[12] and done to reduce expenses.[13]
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