Rockwell-Swaledale Community School District

Rockwell-Swaledale Community School District was a school district headquartered in Rockwell, Iowa, USA.[1] Located in Cerro Gordo County, it served Rockwell and Swaledale.[2]

History

The district was formed in 1960 by the merger of the Rockwell Community School District and the Swaledale Community School District.[3]

In fall 2004, Rockwell-Swaledale entered into a whole grade-sharing agreement, in which students from one school district attend another district's schools for certain levels, with the Sheffield-Chapin Community School District and the Meservey-Thornton Community School District, at the high school level; the Rockwell-Swaledale and Sheffield-Chapin-Meservey-Thornton high schools at the time remained separate but shared students and programs. The Sheffield-Chapin and Meservey-Thornton school districts, which had already entered into their own whole grade-sharing agreement with one another, legally merged into the Sheffield-Chapin-Meservey-Thornton (SCMT) Community School District in 2007.[4]

Circa 2008, Rockwell-Swaledale began a new whole grade-sharing agreement with SCMT as "West Fork Schools".[5] In 2010 voters of the two districts formally agreed to merge, with Rockwell-Swaledale district residents approving it on a 253-201 basis, or 55%, while SCMT voters approved on a 501-42 basis, or 92.27%.[6] On July 1, 2011 it merged with SCMT to form the West Fork Community School District.[7]

References
  1. "District Info." Rockwell-Swaledale Community School District. December 6, 2002. Retrieved on January 13, 2019. "Rockwell-Swaledale Community School District 210 2nd Street South Rockwell IA, 50469"
  2. "Rockwell-Swaledale Community School District", Iowa Secretary of State. Retrieved January 13, 2019. Detail map for Rockwell.
  3. "District History". West Fork Community School District. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
  4. "District History". West Fork Community School District. Retrieved 2019-01-13. - The page notes that the reorganization into the West Fork CSD, meaning when the district legally appeared as a single school district, was in 2011.
  5. Nicklay, Deb (2010-05-05). "RS-SCMT merger advances". Globe Gazette. Retrieved 2019-01-13. The two districts, which operate under the name West Fork, have been whole-grade sharing partners for two years.
  6. Buehner, Kristin (2010-09-14). "Six school districts merge into three after voting". Globe Gazette. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
  7. "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on January 13, 2019.
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