Anamosa School District
The Anamosa School District is a school district that encompasses part of Jones County, Iowa and a small portion of eastern Linn County, Iowa. The cities of Anamosa, Iowa, Martelle, Iowa and Morley, Iowa are in the school district along with the unincorporated communities of Amber, Fairview and Viola. The Anamosa school district currently has 3 schools. Strawberry Hill Elementary, Anamosa Middle School and Anamosa High School. Their sports teams are called Blue Raiders.
History
When the district was organized into its current form, ASD had schools in two elementary schools in Anamosa and one each in Martelle, Morley and Viola. Along with the middle school and high school in Anamosa. Morley closed in the 1960s followed by West Elementary in Anamosa (For many years called Anamosa Elementary) in 1982. Martelle closed in 1990 and reorganization took place with K-2 attending Strawberry Hill in Anamosa 3-4 at Viola, and 5-8 at the Middle School. Viola closed in 1998 moving K-4 back to Strawberry Hill along with 5th graders who moved over from the Middle School.
The district's future
With West Middle School nearing 100 years old, a new middle school was built in 2012 on Old Dubuque road in Anamosa thus closing the West Middle School and beginning the start of Anamosa Middle School. The Ellen Kennedy Performing Arts Center opened spring of 2016.