BCLUW Community School District

BCLUW Community School District is a school district headquartered in Conrad, Iowa.[1]

As of 2015 the school district has about 640 students in grades K-12.[2]

Its service area includes portions of Grundy, Marshall, and Hardin counties. It serves Conrad, Beaman, Liscomb, Union, and Whitten.[3] It also serves rural areas around Marshalltown.[2]

The schools are BCLUW Elementary School in Conrad, BCLUW Middle School in Union, and BCLUW High School in Conrad.

History

BCLUW formed on July 1, 1992 as a consolidation of the former Beaman-Conrad-Liscomb (BCL) and Union-Whitten (UW) school districts.[4]

In 2001 it had about 693 students.[5]

Operations

The district entered into a agreements multiple school districts to share employees; districts may share employees as a way of saving money. For example the BCLUW and GMG school districts share a superintendent, with the occupant working for BCLUW 60% of the time and GMG 40% of the time.[6] Ben Petty, previously the principal of BCLUW High School, became the shared superintendent of GMG and BCLUW in 2011.[7] By 2014 BCLUW, GMG, and the Hubbard-Radcliffe districts shared a single elementary guidance counselor, the BCLUW, GMG, North Tama, and Gladbrook-Reinbeck districts shared a single director of curriculum and innovation, BCLUW and Hubbard-Radcliffe have a single consumer sciences teacher and a single art teacher, and BCLUW and GMG have a single transportation director.[8]

Notable employees
  • Paula Baniszewski (under the name Paula Pace), involved in the murder of Sylvia Likens when she was 17. She worked at BCULW from 1998 to 2012, when she was fired by the district once her true identity was revealed; she failed to disclose her past.[9]

References
  1. "Home." BCLUW Community School District. Retrieved on August 3, 2015. "610 E. Center Street, Conrad, IA 50621"
  2. "Positions Available." BCLUW Community School District. Retrieved on August 3, 2015.
  3. "BCLUW School District" (PDF). Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved 2020-03-22. - The map shows that none of the Marshalltown city limits is within the BCLUW district.
  4. "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66" (PDF). Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  5. "Home page". BCLUW Community School District. 2001-02-11. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  6. "New superintendent named for GMG/BCLUW By Margaret Thomsen". Northern Sun Print. Gladbrook, Iowa. 2011-02-11. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  7. Potter, Andrew (2011-02-15). "Petty named BCLUW and GMG superintendent". Traer Star-Clipper. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  8. "BCLUW continues staff sharing agreements". Times-Republican. 2014-07-25. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  9. Schettler, Emily, Joel Aschbrenner and Josh Hafner. "School district fires aide upon learning of secret past" (Archive). The Des Moines Register at USA Today. October 24, 2012. Retrieved on August 3, 2015.
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