AHSTW Community School District
public school district in Avoca, Iowa, United States
A-H-S-T-W Community School District is a rural public school district headquartered in Avoca, Iowa.
The district, with about 250 square miles (650 km2) of area, serves sections of Cass, Harrison, Pottawattamie, and Shelby counties. It serves Avoca, Hancock, Shelby, Walnut, and much of Tennant. The initials of the five cities form the name of the school district.
History
It was formed by the merger of the A-H-S-T Community School District and the Walnut Community School District on July 1, 2016. About 88% of the voters in the combined area favored consolidation in the vote.
The initial school board was to be simply a combination of the existing A-H-S-T-W and Walnut districts, with a total of seven members: two from Walnut and the remainder from A-H-S-T-W. The prospective future board would have seven members, with two at-large and the remainder based on voting districts. The proportion was set since the former Walnut district had about one-fourth of the population of the combined A-H-S-T-W district.
Schools
The district operates three schools in a single facility in Avoca:
A-H-S-T-W Primary
A-H-S-T-W Intermediate
A-H-S-T-W High School
School expansion
Circa 2015, the middle school area of the A-H-S-T-W Secondary School building in Avoca was scheduled to receive an expansion. Now in 2023, they are adding on to the area of the A-H-S-T-W Secondary School area.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55602943. Authority coordinates are 41.470, -95.342. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016, 2015 and 2023.
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