North Scott Community School District
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| District information | |
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| Grades | K-12 |
| Established | |
| Superintendent | Joe Stutting |
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| Athletic conference | Mississippi Athletic Conference |
| District mascot | Lancers |
| Colors | Scarlet and Silver |
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| Website | www |
The North Scott School District is a public school district in Scott County, Iowa. Based in Eldridge, it spans 220 square miles (570 km2) in northern Scott County.
North Scott consists of seven schools: a high school; a junior high school; and five elementary schools, each located in the main communities of the district. The district is governed by a seven-member board of directors, which meets bi-monthly at the district's administration building in Eldridge.
The school district is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and the Iowa Department of Education.
The North Scott School District became a legal entity on July 1, 1956, and resulted from a special election in December 1955. Thirteen independent school districts - each serving individual townships or towns - merged to form the new district; another district joined in January 1958.
Because of its central location in the new district, Eldridge was selected as the site for a new junior-senior high school building. The southwest corner of LeClaire Road and South First Street, at the time the east edge of town. Construction began in 1957, and was completed in time for the 1958-1959 school year.
North Scott's first superintendent was Charles Hahn; the first high school principal was Melvin Heiler. Heiler would succeed Hahn in 1964 and guided the district through a period of great growth during the late 1960s and 1970s. He retired in 1980, a year after a successful push for the construction of a 900-seat fine arts auditorium at the high school.
Elementary students in kindergarten through sixth grades continued to attending either rural one-room schoolhouses in various parts of the county (or if they lived in town, an older school building). Students assigned to a particular building depending their grade level and where they lived in the district. By 1961, district leaders began the first of several attempts to pass a bond issue to replace these older school buildings with modern elementary schools. After several failed attempts, voters finally approved a measure in July 1965 to build four elementary buildings: one each in Eldridge, Donahue, Long Grove and Princeton. The elementary buildings were completed by 1967, with each of them named after astronauts (in paying homage to the space program). The older school buildings were either converted for private uses or abandoned.
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