Eddyville–Blakesburg Community School District (EBCSD) was a school district headquartered in

Eddyville, Iowa Eddyville is a city in Mahaska, Monroe, and Wapello counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 970 at the time of the 2020 census. History ''Circa'' 1839, a Sauk village was established on this site following the end of the Black ...

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. It served Eddyville, Blakesburg, Chillicothe, and Kirkville.

History

It formed on July 1, 1994, by the merger of the

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and the

Blakesburg Community School District Blakesburg is a city in Wapello County, Iowa, United States. The population was 274 at the 2020 census. History Blakesburg was laid out in 1852. It was named for one of its founders, Theophilus Blake. Geography Blakesburg's longitude and latitu ...

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. Retrieved on January 14, 2019. Around that time officials from those two districts asked the officials of the

Fremont Community School District Fremont Community School District was a school district headquartered in Fremont, Iowa. It operated a single K-8 school in that town, while, since around the 1990s, it sent its high school students to Eddyville–Blakesburg Community School Distr ...

if they were interested in merging too. At that time Fremont did not join them, but by 2011 the new E-B district and Fremont were in discussions on whether to merge. Fremont and E-B had been in a grade-sharing agreement since circa 1989. In 2012, the E-B board voted to build a new elementary school in Blakesburg, something Ed Glenn, the president of the school board, voted against. On Tuesday, September 13, 2011, the merger was approved in a referendum, with the E-B district voters doing so on a 335–86 basis and the Fremont voters doing so on a 91–60 basis. On July 1, 2012, E-B merged with the Fremont district to form the Eddyville–Blakesburg–Fremont Community School District. As part of the merger plans, the pre-merger E-B and Fremont boards were to, for a period, continue to meet while a newly selected combined EBF board was to already begin business.

Schools

Schools included: * Eddyville–Blakesburg Jr./Sr. High (grades 7–12) - Eddyville * Blakesburg Middle Attendance Center (grades 5–8) * Blakesburg Elementary Attendance Center (pre-K–4) * Eddyville Elementary Attendance Center (pre-K–4) Circa 2010 the middle school was now in Eddyville instead of Blakesburg.

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* * Defunct school districts in Iowa School districts established in 1994 1994 establishments in Iowa School districts disestablished in 2012 2012 disestablishments in Iowa Education in Davis County, Iowa Education in Mahaska County, Iowa Education in Monroe County, Iowa Education in Wapello County, Iowa {{iowa-school-stub