Malvern Community School District

Malvern Community School District (MCSD) was a school district headquartered in Malvern, Iowa, USA. It operated Chantry Elementary School and Malvern High School.[1]

It was formed on July 1, 1960. It went into a legal dispute with the Nishna Valley Community School District over the possession of portions of the former Benton, Golden Hill and Wearin school districts.[2]

Circa 2007 it began a "whole grade-sharing" arrangement with the Nishna Valley district in which children from both districts attended each other's schools in order to save money.[3] East Mills High School was the consolidated high school of these districts.[4]

On July 1, 2011, it merged with Nishna Valley to form the East Mills Community School District.[5] Voters in both districts approved the consolidation on a 6 to 1 basis in 2010; 19.2% of the registered voters in the districts, a total of 483 people, participated in that election.[6]

  1. ^ Home. Malvern Community School District. December 12, 1998. Retrieved July 13, 2018.
  2. ^ "Nishna Valley Com. Sch. Dist. v. Malvern Com. Sch. Dist. 121 N.W.2d 646 (1963)". Justia. Retrieved July 13, 2018.
  3. ^ Stegmeir, Mary (June 10, 2014). "More merging Iowa school districts on the horizon". Press Citizen. Retrieved July 13, 2018. The East Mills district, formed in 2011 when the Malvern and Nishna Valley districts merged, [...] The western Iowa districts had participated in whole-grade sharing for four years before the reorganization.
  4. ^ Home. Malvern Community School District. May 13, 2008. Retrieved July 13, 2018.
  5. ^ "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66" (PDF). Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
  6. ^ Stevens, Joel (December 14, 2010). "Local school districts to merge after vote". Red Oak Express. Retrieved July 13, 2018.