BCLUW Community School District is a rural

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. As of 2015, the school district has about 640 students in grades K-12. Its service area includes portions of Grundy,

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, and Hardin counties. It serves Conrad, Beaman, Liscomb,

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, and Whitten. It also serves rural areas around

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. The schools are BCLUW Elementary School in Conrad, BCLUW Middle School in Union, and BCLUW High School in Conrad. The school mascot is the Comets, and their colors are black and gold.

History

BCLUW formed on July 1, 1992, as a consolidation of the former Beaman-Conrad-Liscomb (BCL) and Union-Whitten (UW) school districts. In 2001, it had about 693 students.

Operations

The district entered into an agreement with multiple school districts to share employees; districts may share employees as a way of saving money. For example the BCLUW and GMG school districts share a superintendent, with the occupant working for BCLUW 60% of the time and GMG 40% of the time. Ben Petty, previously the principal of BCLUW High School, became the shared superintendent of GMG and BCLUW in 2011. By 2014 BCLUW, GMG, and the Hubbard–Radcliffe districts shared a single elementary guidance counselor, the BCLUW, GMG, North Tama, and Gladbrook–Reinbeck districts shared a single director of curriculum and innovation, BCLUW and Hubbard–Radcliffe have a single consumer sciences teacher and a single art teacher, and BCLUW and GMG have a single transportation director.

Schools

*BCLUW Elementary School (Conrad) *BCLUW Middle School (Union) *BCLUW High School (Conrad)

BCLUW High School

Athletics

The Comets compete in the Iowa Star Conference in the following sports: *Bowling *Cross country (boys and girls) ** Boys' 1969 State Champions *Volleyball (girls) *Basketball (boys and girls) *Wrestling (boys and girls) *Track and field (boys and girls) ** Boys' 2-time Class 1A State Champions - (1982, 2006) *Golf (boys and girls) ** Girls' 1990 Class 1A State Champions *Baseball (boys) *Softball (girls) ** 2-time Class 2A State Champions (2009, 2010) *Soccer (boys and girls) *Tennis (boys and girls) In addition, the Comets currently compete in Class A in football. *1976 Class 1A State Champions

Enrollment

Notable employees

* Paula Baniszewski (under the name Paula Pace), involved in the

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when she was 17. She worked at BCULW from 1998 to 2012, when she was fired by the district once her true identity was revealed.Schettler, Emily, Joel Aschbrenner and Josh Hafner.
School district fires aide upon learning of secret past

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References

External links

BCLUW Community School District
* {{authority control School districts in Iowa Education in Grundy County, Iowa Education in Hardin County, Iowa Education in Marshall County, Iowa Waterloo – Cedar Falls metropolitan area 1992 establishments in Iowa School districts established in 1992