Titonka Consolidated School District was a school district headquartered in

Titonka, Iowa Titonka is a city in Kossuth County, Iowa, United States. The population was 511 at the time of the 2020 census. History Titonka got its start in the year 1898, following construction of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway through ...

, United States.AEA 3 Public and Parochial School Districts and Administrators
" Lakeland Area Education Agency 3. February 4, 1998. Retrieved on July 22, 2018.

History

For much of its history the district operated elementary and middle school levels. In 1989, Titonka began a program of sharing academic, athletic, and extracurricular activities with the

Buffalo Center–Rake Community School District Buffalo Center–Rake Community School District was a school district serving Buffalo Center and Rake, Iowa. The district was established on July 1, 1978, with the merger of the Buffalo Center Community School District and the Rake Community Sch ...

. On July 1, 1989, Titonka entered into a grade-sharing arrangement with the Buffalo-Rake,

Lakota Lakota may refer to: *Lakota people, a confederation of seven related Native American tribes *Lakota language, the language of the Lakota peoples Place names In the United States: *Lakota, Iowa *Lakota, North Dakota, seat of Nelson County *Lakota ...

, and

Thompson Thompson may refer to: People * Thompson (surname) * Thompson M. Scoon (1888–1953), New York politician Places Australia *Thompson Beach, South Australia, a locality Bulgaria * Thompson, Bulgaria, a village in Sofia Province Canada * ...

school districts, in which students from any one or two districts attended the other districts' schools for a particular grade level. Earlier that year those districts and the

Woden–Crystal Lake Community School District Woden–Crystal Lake Community School District (W-CL) was a school district headquartered in Crystal Lake, Iowa. It served Crystal Lake and Woden. History Circa 1992 the Woden–Crystal Lake district began sharing administrative services and emplo ...

held discussions about a comprehensive plan for their region. In 1992, the Buffalo Center–Rake and Lakota districts merged into the Buffalo Center–Rake–Lakota district. The grade-sharing arrangement with the new district was renewed for three years. While the successor district and Thompson attempted a merge, the Titonka district did not attempt a merger with them. In 1995, the grade-sharing agreement with Buffalo Center–Rake–Lakota and Thompson expired, and instead Titonka began grade-sharing with Woden–Crystal Lake. The district sent its students to Woden–Crystal Lake for senior high school, while Titonka operated the joint junior high school, and both districts had their respective elementary schools.Home
" Titonka Consolidated School District. February 2, 2002. Retrieved on July 22, 2018. As a result of the agreement, schools were branded "Woden–Crystal Lake–Titonka Community School District" even though the two districts remained legally separate. In 2002 the Titonka K–8 school had about 200–225 students. In 2007, the middle school section was renovated and an addition was installed. In 2011, Titonka switched its high school grade-sharing to the

Algona Community School District Algona Community School District is a rural public school district headquartered in Algona, Iowa. The district, mostly in Kossuth County, has small sections in Hancock and Winnebago counties. It serves Algona, Burt, Titonka, and Whittemore ...

. Its grade-sharing agreement with the Algona district meant that Titonka would send students in grades 5–12 to Algona, and so the Titonka district became elementary only. In 2013, the residents of the Titonka district voted to consolidate their district altogether into the Algona district. The whole grade-sharing agreement was modified for 2013–14, the final school year, so that the Algona district only taught preschool and preschool preparation classes. On July 1, 2014, the Titonka district consolidated into the Algona district. The Algona district, which took control of the school building, was scheduled to sell it to the Titonka city government on January 12, 2015.

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* * (shared website for the Titonka district and the Woden-Crystal Lake district as part of their grade-sharing agreement) * * {{Defunct school districts in Iowa Education in Kossuth County, Iowa Defunct school districts in Iowa