Nishnabotna High School

Nishnabotna Junior-Senior High School was a secondary school in Farragut, Iowa. It was operated by the Farragut Community School District. The school served the communities of Farragut, Hamburg, Imogene, and Riverton.[1] Its mascot was the blue devil. It opened in 2011 and closed in 2016.

Its nickname was "Nish".[2] It had about 120 students prior to its closure.[3]

History

It was established after the Farragut Community School District and the Hamburg Community School District agreed to do a "grade-sharing" arrangement in which students from one district attended another district for certain grade levels so the two could save resources.[4] In 2011 the Farragut high school was replaced by Nishibotna and the Hamburg high school closed.[5] In order to merge two different sets of athletic teams and traditions, Nishnabotna High had a completely separate athletic mascot.[4]

In 2012 some students from Hamburg stated they did not feel like they belonged to Nishnabotna High.[6] A former teacher at Farragut High, Pat Shipley, stated in an article in NEA Today that the Farragut and Hamburg communities had difficulty adjusting to the consolidated school since they were about 20 miles (32 km) apart, even though the students themselves adjusted.[4] Initially Nishibotna received the senior high school students in both districts. In 2015 the grade-sharing arrangement was changed in which all levels of secondary students, middle and high, went to Farragut, and therefore, Nishibotna.[7]

In 2015 the Iowa state government agreed to shut down the Farragut district, and therefore Nishnabotna High, effective 2016.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP (2010 CENSUS): Fremont County, IA." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on June 18, 2018. Shows the boundaries of the former Farragut Community School District (which included Farragut, Imogene, and Riverton) and pre-2016 Hamburg Community School District (which included Hamburg). Nishnabotna High served both areas.
  2. ↑ Stewart, Scott (2015-11-08). "Nish students express desire to stay together". Daily Nonpareil. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  3. ↑ Vujicic, Aleksandra (2016-05-29). "More rural Iowa school districts plan to close their doors". Des Moines Register. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  4. 1 2 3 Álvarez, Brenda (2017-04-11). "How a Community Copes When a School Shuts its Doors". NEA Today, National Education Association. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  5. ↑ "OWA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (Cite as 26 D.o.E. App. Dec. 197)." Iowa Department of Education. p. 1/5. Retrieved on June 18, 2018.
  6. ↑ Stewart, Scott (2014-08-01). "Merger considered as a solution for spending woes at Hamburg, Farragut school districts in Iowa". Omaha World-Herald. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  7. ↑ Ryan, Mackenzie (2015-03-26). "Two districts to close schools to keep accreditation". Des Moines-Register. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  8. ↑ Peterson, Mike (2015-11-18). "What's next for Nishnabotna?". KMA Land. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
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