GarnerâHayfield Community School District was a school district headquartered in
Garner, Iowa; circa 1998 it was the second largest employer in that city. In addition it served the
unincorporated areas of
Duncan,
Hayfield, and
Miller. Circa 1998 it had 950 students.[1]
For a period the district shared specialized classes with the
Ventura Community School District. Beginning in 2012, the two districts began a whole grade-sharing program in which students from one district attended school in the other district, with high school students at Garner and with middle school students at Ventura.[2]
The election to determine whether the districts would merge was held on September 9, 2014, with 602â22 in GarnerâHayfield and 351â51 counts in Ventura favoring the merger.[3] Approval required each district to have over half of its constituents to vote in favor.[4] They merged into the new
GarnerâHayfieldâVentura Community School District on July 1, 2015.[5]
Schools
It previously operated GarnerâHayfield
Kâ8 (Elementary and Middle) and GarnerâHayfield
High.[6]
References
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District Info." GarnerâHayfield Community School District. December 1, 1998. Retrieved on November 7, 2018.
Defunct school districts in Iowa since 1965â1966
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 (*).