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LaurensâMarathon Community School District | |
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Location | |
United States | |
Coordinates | 42.852318, -94.850786 |
District information | |
Type | Local school district |
Grades | Kâ8 |
Established | 1976 |
Superintendent | Kevin Wood |
Schools | 1 |
Budget | $4,630,000 (2020-21) [1] |
NCES District ID | 1916420 [1] |
Students and staff | |
Students | 140 (2022-23) [1] |
Teachers | 12.76 FTE [1] |
Staff | 21.43 FTE [1] |
Studentâteacher ratio | 10.97 [1] |
District mascot | Chargers |
Other information | |
Website |
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LaurensâMarathon Community School District is a rural public school district headquartered in Laurens, Iowa, [2] also serving Marathon. The district occupies sections of Buena Vista, Clay, Palo Alto, and Pocahontas counties. [3]
It formed on July 1, 1976, by the merger of the Laurens Community School District and the Marathon Community School District. [4]
On July 1, 2010, the South Clay Community School District was dissolved, and LaurensâMarathon received portions of the district. [4]
In 2014, the South Central Calhoun Community School District, a district not contiguous with LaurensâMarathon, [5] entered a superintendent-sharing agreement. The shared superintendent was Jeff Kruse. [6]
The district began partial-day sharing, in which students from one district went to another district for some classes, with the Pocahontas Community School District around 2015. [7]
Kruse was scheduled to leave at the end of the 2016â17 school year. [8] Scott Williamson became the new superintendent in July 2017. [9] That year, the L-M and Pocahontas districts began whole grade-sharing, in which one district sent its children to another district for certain grade levels. [7] L-M had multiple classes it was required to have in order to maintain high school grades, but insufficient numbers of students were enrolled in them. As a result, LaurensâMarathon sent its high school students to Pocahontas high school. Around that time period, LaurensâMarathon elementary school students had, as part of a preliminary indication, increased test scores. [10]
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The district operates two schools in a single facility in Laurens: [1]
The current 84-foot (26 m) by 50-foot (15 m) gymnasium opened in September 1998. The previous 76-foot (23 m) by 48-foot (15 m) gymnasium, built in the early 1940s, was called "The Barn". [11]