South Hamilton Community School District

South Hamilton Community School District is a school district headquartered in Jewell Junction, Iowa.[1] It includes an elementary school and a middle/high school.

The district is mostly in Hamilton County with a section in Boone County. It serves Jewell Junction, Ellsworth, Randall, and Stanhope.[2]

History

Circa 1998 there was a bond that would allow the district to change the grade configuration; at the time it had grades 5-12 in the secondary school building, originally intended only as a senior high school, while it hoped to have only grades 7-12 there, with students until grade 5 in the elementary school.[3]

In 2006 there were parents in the Hubbard-Radcliffe Community School District who preferred to send their children to South Hamilton schools instead of the Eldora-New Providence district, which Hubbard-Radcliffe had a grade-sharing agreement with. Parents in the western portion of Hubbard-Radcliffe preferred the idea of that district grade-sharing with South Hamilton instead of Eldora-New Providence. Some parents preferring the South Hamilton district purchased a bus to transport their childen there. Tom Barton of the WCF Courier wrote that "many" Hubbard-Radcliffe parents chose South Hamilton schools.[4]

References
  1. "Home". South Hamilton Community School District. Retrieved 2019-08-03. 315 Division St. Jewell, IA 50130
  2. "South Hamilton" (PDF). Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved 2019-08-03.
  3. "South Hamilton School Seeks Bond Issue". South Hamilton Community School District. 1998-01-28. Retrieved 2019-08-03.
  4. Barton, Tom (2006-07-28). "Grade sharing agreement under fire, leads to open-enrollment issues in Hubbard-Radcliffe". WCF Courier. Retrieved 2019-08-02.
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