South Tama County Community School District (STC) is a rural

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headquartered in

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Service area

The district has a total of of area. Almost all of the district is in

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while a small portion is in Poweshiek County. The district serves, in addition to Tama,

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, Montour, Toledo, and Vining. It also serves the

Meskwaki Settlement The Meskwaki Settlement is an unincorporated community in Tama County, Iowa, United States, west of Tama. It encompasses the reservation lands of the Meskwaki Nation (federally recognized as the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa), one ...

, a Native American settlement, and other areas. Typically, Meskwaki Nation students attend the Meskwaki Settlement School and move on to South Tama County High School.

History

In July 2018, Jared Smith became the superintendent. He previously was the principal of

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. He received a two-year contract renewal in February 2020. In 2020, there was a vote to pass a school bond that would rebuild the middle school as an attachment to the high school building in Tama, which would mean the end of use of the Toledo building. Unofficial results as of March 6, 2020, stated that the vote was 53.9% in favor by a margin of 844–722; it failed due to the percentage of voters being below the required 60%. There was opposition from figures who believed that the district did not give sufficient details about the project. Later that month the district considered another vote.

Enrollment

, the district as a whole had over 1,500 students.

Schools

*South Tama County Elementary, Tama *South Tama County Middle School, Toledio *South Tama County High School, Tama

South Tama County High School

Athletics

The Trojans compete in the

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in the following sports: *Baseball *Basketball (boys and girls) *Bowling *Cross Country (boys and girls) *Football *Golf (boys and girls) ** Girls' Class 2A State Champions - 1998 *Soccer (boys and girls) *Softball *Swimming (boys and girls) *Tennis (boys and girls) *Track and Field (boys and girls) *Volleyball *Wrestling

References

External links

South Tama County Community School District

- '' Tama News-Herald''/'' Toledo Chronicle'' School districts in Iowa Education in Poweshiek County, Iowa Education in Tama County, Iowa {{Iowa-school-stub