Garner-Hayfield-Ventura Community School District

Garner-Hayfield-Ventura Community School District is a school district headquartered in Garner, Iowa. In addition to the cities of Garner and Ventura,[1] it also serves the unincorporated areas of Duncan, Hayfield, and Miller.[2] The district is located in Hancock and Cerro Gordo counties.[3]

History

It was established on July 1, 2015 with the merger of the Garner-Hayfield Community School District and the Ventura Community School District.[4] The election to determine whether the districts would merge was held on September 9, 2014, with 602–22 in Garner-Hayfield and 351-51 counts in Ventura favoring the merger.[5] Approval required each district to have over half of its constituents to vote in favor.[6] The two districts previously had a whole grade-sharing arrangement, in which students from one district would attend another district's schools, beginning in 2012, and prior to that time the two districts shared specialized classes.[7]

As a result of the merger, an interim board was to be established, with the number of board members depending on the population ratio of the territories of the previous districts, resulting in four members from Garner-Hayfield and two members from Ventura.[8]

Schools
  • Garner-Hayfield-Ventura High School (Garner)
    • It was established from the former Garner-Hayfield High School in 2012 after grade-sharing began. 100 of its students that year came from the Ventura school district.[7]
  • Garner-Hayfield-Ventura Middle School (Ventura)
  • Garner-Hayfield-Ventura Elementary School (Garner)
  • GHV Education Center/Lakeside Alternative Program (Ventura)

References
  1. Home. Garner-Hayfield-Ventura Community School District. Retrieved on November 7, 2018. "Address: 605 West Lyons Street Garner, Iowa, 50438"
  2. "District Info." Garner-Hayfield Community School District. December 1, 1998. Retrieved on November 7, 2018. Garner-Hayfield Community School District is a predecessor district, so all of those areas are in the current GHV district.
  3. "Garner-Hayfield-Ventura." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on November 7, 2018.
  4. "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on July 20, 2018.
  5. Peter, Rebecca (2014-09-16). "G-H, Ventura voters approve school merger". The Leader. Retrieved 2018-11-07.
  6. Peter, Rebecca (2014-09-09). "Voters approve Garner-Hayfield / Ventura merger". The Leader. Retrieved 2018-11-07.
  7. Schuessler, Arian (2012-08-20). "Garner-Hayfield, Ventura come together in first year of sharing". Globe Gazette. Retrieved 2018-11-07.
  8. Peter, Rebecca (2014-05-13). "Garner-Hayfield, Ventura merger heads for a vote". The Leader. Retrieved 2018-11-07.

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