Fremont Community School District was a school district headquartered in
Fremont, Iowa
Fremont is a city in Mahaska County, Iowa, United States. The population was 708 at the time of the 2020 census.
History
In 1871, Fremont stretched for 8 blocks, 1/2 mile (under 1 km) along Main Street, with at least one house on every block on ...
. 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 District (EBCSD or E-B) schools.
History
On July 1, 1991, the Fremont district absorbed a portion of the
Hedrick Community School District, involuntarily dissolved by the State of Iowa on that day.
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Around 1994, when the Eddyville and Blakesburg school districts were merging into the E-B district, officials from those two districts asked the officials of the Fremont district 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.
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.
References
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Defunct school districts in Iowa
School districts disestablished in 2012
2012 disestablishments in Iowa
Education in Mahaska County, Iowa