Declining Enrollment Forces Iowa School to Close

Dec. 29, 2008
Elementary closure will save the district more than $466,000.

The Corwith-Wesley School District (Iowa) will close Wesley Elementary School at the end of this school year. Its enrollment has dropped by 100 students over six years and is down to 134 this year, costing the district more than $100,000 in state funding. Closing the school will save the district more than $466,000.


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