Sheffield–Chapin Community School District

School district in Iowa, United States

Sheffield–Chapin Community School District was a school district headquartered in Sheffield, Iowa,^[1] serving Sheffield and Chapin.

History

It formed in 1960 as the result of the merger between the Sheffield Community School District and the Chapin Community School District. In fall 1988 the district began a whole-grade sharing agreement, in which students from one school district attend another district's schools for certain levels, with the Meservey–Thornton Community School District. At that point the Sheffield building hosted the senior high school (grades 9–12) while Thornton building housed the middle school (grades 5–8). These two districts together entered into a whole grade-sharing agreement with the Rockwell–Swaledale Community School District at the high school level in 2004; the Rockwell–Swaledale and Sheffield–Chapin–Meservey–Thornton high schools at the time remained separate but shared students and programs.^[2]

On July 1, 2007, Sheffield–Chapin and Meservey–Thornton legally merged into the Sheffield–Chapin–Meservey–Thornton (SCMT) Community School District.^[3]

References

^ Home. SCMT Community School District. May 12, 2005. Retrieved on January 13, 2019. "SCMT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT 504 PARK ST SHEFFIELD IA 50475"
^ "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.
^ "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on January 13, 2019.

External links

Sheffield-Chapin-Meservey-Thornton Community School District at the Wayback Machine (archive index) (grade-sharing agreement website involving Sheffield–Chapin and Meservey–Thornton, and that of the unified SCMT post-2007)

Defunct school districts in Iowa since 1965–1966

Most of the districts were merged after public votes. Dissolutions, most also the result of public votes, are in italics, and involuntary dissolutions done by the Iowa State Board of Education are marked with asterisks (*).

1960s