Laurens-Marathon Community School District

Laurens-Marathon Community School District is a school district headquartered in Laurens, Iowa,[1] and also serving Marathon. The district occupies sections of Buena Vista, Clay, Palo Alto, and Pocahontas counties.[2]

History

It formed on July 1, 1976 by the merger of the Laurens Community School District and the Marathon Community School District.[3]

On July 1, 2010, the South Clay Community School District was dissolved, and Laurens-Marathon received portions of the district.[3]

In 2014 the South Central Calhoun Community School District, a district not contiguous with Laurens-Marathon,[4] entered a superintendent-sharing agreement. The shared superintendent was Jeff Kruse.[5]

The district began partial-day sharing, in which students from one district went to another district for some classes, with the Pocahontas Community School District around 2015.[6]

Kruse was scheduled to leave at the end of the 2016-2017 school year.[7] Scott Williamson became the new superintendent in July 2017.[8] That year the L-M and Pocahontas districts began whole grade-sharing, in which one district sent its children to another district for certain grade levels.[6] L-M had multiple classes it was required to have in order to maintain high school grades, but insufficient numbers of students were enrolled in them. As a result, Laurens-Marathon sent its high school students to Pocahontas high school. Around that time period Laurens-Marathon elementary school students had, as part of a preliminary indication, increased test scores.[9]

School

The current 84-foot (26 m) by 50-foot (15 m) gymnasium opened in September 1998. The previous 76-foot (23 m) by 48-foot (15 m) gymnasium, built in the early 1940s, was called "The Barn".[10]

References

  1. ↑ Home. Laurens-Marathon Community School District. Retrieved on June 20, 2018. "Laurens-Marathon CSD, 300 W Garfield St, Laurens, IA 50554"
  2. ↑ "Laurens-Marathon." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on July 20, 2018.
  3. 1 2 "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on July 20, 2018.
  4. ↑ "East Sac, South Central will not share superintendent". Daily Times Herald. 2014-05-14. Retrieved 2018-07-18.
  5. ↑ Schafer, Mark (2014-08-26). "Laurens-Marathon to share superintendent with South Central Calhoun". Storm Lake Pilot Tribune. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
  6. 1 2 Kaspari, Peter (2017-02-19). "Laurens-Marathon: Sharing". The Messenger. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
  7. ↑ "South Central Calhoun: Facility improvements". The Messenger. 2017-02-19. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  8. ↑ Kaspari, Peter (2017-07-28). "Williamson is new shared superintendent at L-M". The Messenger. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
  9. ↑ "Laurens-Marathon: Whole-grade sharing, The agreement is working". The Messenger. 2018-01-28. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
  10. ↑ ""The Barn"." Laurens-Marathon Community School District. November 4, 1999. Retrieved on July 21, 2018.
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