Mabel-Canton Public Schools (MC I.S.D. #238) is a school district headquartered in

Mabel, Minnesota Mabel is a city in Fillmore County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 780 at the 2010 census. History A post office called Mabel has been in operation since 1880. The city was named for the daughter of a railroad official. Transport ...

. The district, which also serves Canton, has a single campus with all grades, K-12. It includes sections of Fillmore County and Houston County. It also has an agreement with the

Decorah Community School District The Decorah Community School District is a rural public school district located in Decorah, Iowa, United States. The district is almost entirely in Winneshiek County, with a small portion in Allamakee County. In addition to Decorah, the censu ...

to take students from parts of

Winneshiek County, Iowa Winneshiek County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 20,070. The county seat is Decorah. History A largely rural and agricultural county, Winneshiek County has a rich cultural history from ...

. the district had a total of about 280 students. Another school district document circa 2020 gave the enrollment count as 283. The area of the district is .
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History

On July 1, 1966, the consolidated school district, a merger of the Mabel and Canton schools, opened. The district began using blue and white as school colors, with one each from a predecessor district. Red is used as an "accent color". In 2001 the

North Winneshiek Community School District The North Winneshiek Community School District was a public school district in unincorporated area, unincorporated northern Winneshiek County, Iowa, with a Decorah, Iowa, Decorah address. At the end of the district's existence, it only served ...

ended its high school program. That year it entered into an agreement with Mabel-Canton Schools to allow students from its boundary to attend the Mabel-Canton high school program. In 2018 the combined interim board of

and North Winneshiek district in Iowa approved an agreement with Mabel-Canton, effective for five years, to allow students in the former North Winneshiek district boundary to attend Mabel-Canton if they choose. Decorah CSD had absorbed North Winneshiek CSD effective July 1, 2018. The agreement applies to any post-merger resident of Decorah CSD who is geographically closer to Mabel than to

Decorah, Iowa Decorah is a city in and the county seat of Winneshiek County, Iowa, United States. The population was 7,587 at the time of the 2020 census. Decorah is located at the intersection of State Highway 9 and U.S. Route 52, and is the largest commun ...

, where all Decorah CSD campuses are located. In April 2019 the Mabel-Canton district anticipated that an additional 15-20 students from North Winn would begin attending Mabel-Canton in the start of the subsequent school year. In 2018 the Minnesota Legislature gave the district $433,500 to improve the security of its campus. This was in response to a wave of school shootings occurring elsewhere in the country.

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The school gymnasium has the logos of the two predecessor districts and of the North Winneshiek district. Phil Richert, a former North Winneshiek board member, donated the North Winneshiek logo in a period prior to 2020, inspiring the Mabel-Canton leadership to get the other two.

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