Exira–Elk Horn–Kimballton Community School District
public school district in Elk Horn, Iowa, United States
The Exira–Elk Horn–Kimballton (Exira–EHK) Community School District is a rural public school district headquartered in Elk Horn, Iowa. It consists of two buildings, one in Elk Horn and one in Exira.
The district is mostly within Audubon and Shelby counties, and it has smaller sections in Cass and Guthrie counties. It serves Elk Horn, Exira, Kimballton, and Brayton.
History
It was formed as a merger of the Elk Horn–Kimballton Community School District and the Exira Community School District. The Exira school district had operated at a deficit in several of the years preceding the merger. The consolidation was effective July 1, 2014. 628 people voted in favor and 82 voted against. It was anticipated that 450 students total would attend the already-consolidated schools; the districts had been in a grade-sharing arrangement in which students from one district attended school in another district.
The public source identifies “Exira–Elk Horn–Kimballton Community School District” as public school district in Elk Horn, Iowa, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Exira, Horn and Kimballton.
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This entry incorporates text from “Exira–Elk Horn–Kimballton Community School District” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.