SheffieldâChapin Community School District was a school district headquartered in Sheffield, Iowa, [1] serving Sheffield and Chapin.
It formed in 1960 as the result of the merger between the Sheffield Community School District and the Chapin Community School District. In fall 1988 the district began a whole-grade sharing agreement, in which students from one school district attend another district's schools for certain levels, with the MeserveyâThornton Community School District. At that point the Sheffield building hosted the senior high school (grades 9â12) while Thornton building housed the middle school (grades 5â8). These two districts together entered into a whole grade-sharing agreement with the RockwellâSwaledale Community School District at the high school level in 2004; the RockwellâSwaledale and SheffieldâChapinâMeserveyâThornton high schools at the time remained separate but shared students and programs. [2]
On July 1, 2007, SheffieldâChapin and MeserveyâThornton legally merged into the SheffieldâChapinâMeserveyâThornton (SCMT) Community School District. [3]