Ah, you're right. I didn't notice that. Bumping it 30-35% puts it right about where it would have been 20 years ago. No change, I guess!
Just out today- IA HS enrollment figures
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Ah, you're right. I didn't notice that. Bumping it 30-35% puts it right about where it would have been 20 years ago. No change, I guess!
Urbandale grew into surrounding school districts. All areas had to be accounted for even before the growth. It doesn't make sense to try and change the lines due to unrelated municipal growth.
The local option sales tax has to be voted on - once it is approved the district can allocate funds.
[h=3]Q. How is a local option sales tax imposed?[/h]A majority of voters at an election must approve the local option sales tax.
https://tax.iowa.gov/iowa-local-option-sales-tax-lost-questions-and-answers#vote
I think it's just b/c it's the one thing they can measure with some certainty to provide an apples-to-apples comparison. Some schools might have trouble estimating the number of kids coming up from possibly multiple middle schools so I think they just use 9-11 so they have a relatively certain number they can use to divide the schools up into classes.
Marshalltown sucks no matter where you put them for travel but right now Mason City and Fort Dodge are an hour and 45 minutes. That's pretty insane for a 4A school in central Iowa. Cedar Falls and Waterloo make more sense competitively than Des Moines but travel wise and not wanting to split with rival Ames probably makes more sense to keep them with Des Moines.
Local Option Sales Tax (LOSST) cannot be used for schools. School debt does have to be voted on but it has nothing to do with the 1% LOSST tax.
The main thing I learned after looking through this list is I have no idea what my former high school is called now.
Sioux City is noticeably further drive than Des Moines area schools for Fort Dodge(was 30-40 minutes when I went probably more like 20 after some of the Highway 20 improvements). Not to mention, being in a conference with Sioux City schools means Council Bluffs as well and that's some atrocious travel.
Fort Dodge and Mason City have no jgood geographical fits, the CIML is merely the least bad one.
Seeing these numbers makes me scratch my head (again) at the choice to have 46 teams in 4A football rather than 48.
North Scott (690) can be in the same class as Valley (2,196) but Western Dubuque (654) and Norwalk (633) are too small to be competitive?
For the sake of eliminating those dumb five-team districts, 4A needs to expand to 48 schools in football.
North Scott (690) can be in the same class as Valley (2,196) but Western Dubuque (654) and Norwalk (633) are too small to be competitive?
For the sake of eliminating those dumb five-team districts, 4A needs to expand to 48 schools in football.
Didn't the Ankeny school board basically lose their mind and approve plans for the new high school and several other new schools that ended up costing a ridiculous amount of money without really going through the proper channels? I seem to remember they all got fired because of that. I may not be remembering correctly though.
I'm guessing North Scott may have elected to stay in 4A. The state implemented a 700-student cut-off for 4A so that no school under 700 BEDS would be FORCED to play much larger schools. That doesn't mean those smaller schools can't choose to stay in 4A.
It's also worth noting that the MVC/MAC aren't nearly on the same level as the CIML in most sports. A North Scott has an easier time competing against the MVC/MAC competition than a Norwalk or DCG would have against the Valley/Ankeny/Centennial/Dowling/Waukee/SEP's in central Iowa.
It was controversial because it was pretty expensive and obviously the idea splitting up a high school takes some getting used to. It required what, if memory serves, was the largest ever bond issue approved in Iowa at that time. I may be wrong, but I don't recall that the school board did anything untoward in getting that through. But most of them lost their jobs at the next election. I don't know if it was just lingering resentment or what.
That said, those board members who lost their jobs promised a big property tax spike then decreases in years to follow, and that has happened.
Fascinating.
Largest difference between significant others/spouses?
My wife went to MOC-Floyd Valley. I went to Des Moines East. A difference in enrollment this year of 1,415. I imagine it was similar when we were in school. Damn, we come from completely different (Iowa) worlds. Thank you, Iowa State University :smile:
Largest difference between significant others/spouses?
My wife went to MOC-Floyd Valley. I went to Des Moines East. A difference in enrollment this year of 1,415. I imagine it was similar when we were in school. Damn, we come from completely different (Iowa) worlds. Thank you, Iowa State University :smile:
I'll give you FD but as I mentioned in my post MC is about 40 miles closer to Waterloo/CF so how does that work out in your maths?
You cite what would be Mason City's closest games. They would also have to drive to Dubuque, Cedar Rapids, and Iowa City in that conference. Dubuque is 170 miles, Cedar Rapids would be 135 miles, Iowa City would be 165 miles.
I guess you could do a conference of MC, Marshalltown, Fort Dodge, Ames, Cedar Falls, W'loo E/W. But why would Ames want to leave the CIML for that and same thing for CF and the Waterloo schools?
