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The district covers 130 square miles (340 km 2) and serves the communities of Iowa City, Coralville, Hills, North Liberty, University Heights and the surrounding rural areas. The school district employs over 2,200 people. It is the fifth largest school district in the state of Iowa and the second largest employer in the Iowa City area.
One slate is best for Iowa City schools. On Nov. 7, you get to vote for four candidates to sit on the Iowa City Community School District school board. As a departing board member, I take this ...
Shawn Eyestone, president of the Iowa City Community School District board, speaks during a meeting, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021, at the district's Educational Services Center (ESC) at 1725 North Dodge ...
Iowa City Community School Board Director Lisa Williams, left, explains her intention to vote to close Hills Elementary School following the 2023-24 school year Tuesday, March 26, 2024 in Iowa City.
In fall 1995 the number of school districts operating high schools was down to 353, and in 1995 670 was the median enrollment K-12 of an Iowa school district. [7] An Iowa Department of Education consultant named Guy Ghan referred to the 1990s school district mergers as the "third wave". [8]
After Governor Kim Reynolds signed two bills about establishing and operating new charter schools in May 2021, three more were founded in Union, Iowa, Hamburg, Iowa and Des Moines. In 2023, the department received 8 more charter school applications for the 2024-25 School Year, one in Oakmont, three in Cedar Rapids, and four in Des Moines. [5]
Find out what the Iowa City Community School Board candidates are rallying for and against ahead of next week's election:
The district formed on July 1, 2014, from the merger of the Rockwell City–Lytton Community School District and the Southern Cal Community School District. [5] In 2009, the predecessor districts decided to begin sharing athletics and secondary grades, in which students from both districts attended each other districts' schools, [6] and by 2012–13, all grade levels became shared.