Charter Oak-Ute Community School District

Charter Oak-Ute Community School District is a school district headquartered in Charter Oak, Iowa. It serves grades K-8, while it sends high school students to the Maple Valley Anthon-Oto Community School District as part of a grade-sharing arrangement.[1]

The district, located in portions of Crawford and Monona counties, serves Charter Oak, Ute, and Soldier.[2]

History

The district began operations in 1962 as a consolidation of the Charter Oak and Ute school districts.[3] Beginning that year, Charter Oak-Ute had its own high school,[4]

In 1979 the entire school district had 850 students.[3] The high school division had 113 students in the 1991-1992 school year.[5] On July 1, 2004 the East Monona Community School District was dissolved, with a portion going to Charter Oak-Ute.[6] 28% of the former East Monona district, including the City of Soldier, was reassigned to Charter Oak-Ute.[7]

The district, now including the portion of the East Monona territory, from 2005 to 2015, had an enrollment decline of 78 students.[3] In 2006 the high school division had 102 students.[5] In 2017 the district had a total of 264 students,[3] with 78 students in the high school division,[5] including 25 students in grade 12. Due to the decline in enrollments, in January 2017 the Charter Oak-Ute district and the MVAO district entered into a grade-sharing arrangement in which one district sends its students to another district for certain grade levels. As a result, the Charter Oak-Ute high school closed.[4] MVAO High School was renamed MVAO-COU High School. Charter Oak-Ute will pay MVAO tuition costs.[3]

References
  1. Home. Charter Oak-Ute Community School District. Retrieved on July 16, 2018. "Charter Oak- Ute Communiy [sic] School 321 Main Street Charter Oak, Iowa 51439"
  2. "Charter Oak-Ute" (PDF). Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved 2018-07-16.
  3. Gallagher, Tim (2017-02-12). "GALLAGHER: Enrollment decline fuels high school sharing pact". Sioux City Journal. Retrieved 2018-07-16. Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  4. Gallagher, Tim (2017-05-09). "GALLAGHER: Bobcats bid farewell to Charter Oak-Ute". Sioux City Journal. Retrieved 2018-07-16. Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  5. Mundt, Dan (2016-12-23). "CO-U to grade share with MVAO Spring semester to be CO-U High School's last". DBR News. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
  6. "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on July 20, 2018.
  7. Boyce, Brien T. (2003-09-25). "End of the road for East Monona". Daily Non Pareil. Retrieved 2018-07-16. Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

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