Western Dubuque Community School District

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Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Coordinates". Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".The Western Dubuque Community School District, (WDCSD; also known as Western Dubuque or WD) is a rural public school district based in Farley, Iowa (USA).[1]

The district, which operates schools in western Dubuque County, is about Script error: No such module "convert". in area, making it the largest school district (by area) in Iowa.[2]

History

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General information

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Map showing the areas served by the Western Dubuque Community School District (red).

The Western Dubuque Community School District serves an area covering Script error: No such module "convert"., including 19 communities in five counties.[4] Its size is about half of that of Rhode Island.[5]

The district's territory includes all of the western half of Dubuque County, eastern parts of Delaware County, northeastern Jones County, northwestern Jackson County and extreme southeastern Clayton County. This area includes the towns of: Balltown, Bankston, Bernard, Cascade, Centralia, Dyersville, Epworth, Farley, Luxemburg, Holy Cross, New Vienna, Peosta, almost all of Rickardsville, and Worthington. All are completely or partially in Dubuque County.[6] It also serves the unincorporated areas of Fillmore,[7] Petersburg,[8] and Temple Hill.[7]

The district currently operates:

WD is governed by a five-member elected school board and is managed by an appointed Superintendent of Schools. The Superintendent of Schools is Dan Butler.

Enrollment

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Enrollment history & projections for the Western Dubuque Community School District 2000-2011.

In September 2007, there were 2,776 K-12 students attending WD schools. 2,432 (87.6%) of those students lived in Dubuque County, 103 (3.7%) lived in Delaware County, 137 (4.9%) lived in Jones County, 97 (3.5%) lived in Jackson County, and 7 (.3%) lived in Clayton County. Of public school students living in Dubuque County, 18.6% attend WD schools.[9] By 2019-20, the enrollment had grown to 3,642.[10]

History

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Recently, there has been some debate over whether or not the town of Dyersville, Iowa should remain a part of the Western Dubuque Community School District. Some residents of the town have publicly expressed feeling "neglected" or "ignored" by the WD school board. The debate seems to stem from the fact that Dyersville lacks a full K-5 elementary school, the elementary school was K-1. A new elementary school was built in Dyersville, opening in the fall of 2011. It is located near US Highway 20.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Schools

Elementary schools:

Secondary schools:

Former schools:

  • Bernard Elementary School
    • Located next to the Bernard Commercial Club Park,[16] on a Script error: No such module "convert". plot of land, Bernard Elementary opened in 1960 had its current building open in 1963, and received an addition in 1967.[11] Family sizes in the area decreased,[17] and as years passed the enrollment grew smaller and smaller.[18] By 2017 the school was sharing employees with Cascade Elementary, and was required to send students in kindergarten and the second grade to Cascade Elementary as the numbers of students from those grades were too small; Bernard Elementary had a total of 31 students. The district stated that the yearly cost of operating the school per student was $14,000. In February 2017 four members of the school board voted to close the school while Mark Knuth, the president of the school board, chose to abstain from voting.[11] Students were reassigned to Cascade Elementary.[19]

See also

References

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  1. ↑ Home. Western Dubuque Community School District. Retrieved on July 24, 2018. "Address: 310 4th St. SW, PO Box 68 | Farley, IA 52046"
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  5. ↑ "Facts and Figures about Western Dubuque Community School District." Western Dubuque Community School District. February 6, 2012. Retrieved on July 25, 2018.
  6. ↑ "Western Dubuque." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved on July 24, 2018.
  7. ↑ a b c d "Cascade Elementary." Western Dubuque Community School District. January 3, 2007. Retrieved on July 25, 2018.
  8. ↑ a b "Dyersville Elementary Boundary Change Map." Western Dubuque Community School District. Retrieved on July 24, 2018.
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  12. ↑ "Cascade Elementary Boundary Map." Western Dubuque Community School District. Retrieved on July 24, 2018.
  13. ↑ a b c d "2017 Elementary Boundaries." Western Dubuque Community School District. Retrieved on July 24, 2018. Detail on Luxemburg, New Vienna, and Bankston, Detail on Dyersville and Petersburg, Detail on Balltown, Holy Cross, and Rickardsville, Detail on Peosta and Centralia
  14. ↑ "Drexler Elementary." Western Dubuque Community School District. January 3, 2007. Retrieved on July 25, 2018.
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  16. ↑ "Bernard Elementary School." Western Dubuque Community School District. Retrieved on July 25, 2018.
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