Map of every high school in Iowa. 10 counties have only 1 high school in the entire county (4 in top 1/3, 5 in bottom 1/3, 1 in middle).
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It would be really cool to see this same picture from 1995, especially in the north-central region.
seems like all of the schools have closed or consolidated. - CWL, Woden, Dows, Cal, Northeast Hamiliton, Alden, etc. Kind of sad, but its really expensive to run a school district that may have 130 kids k-12 spread out over 20 miles. I really don't think there is any way to fix this situation. Not like there are any huge tech or financial companies setting up shop in Woden, Iowa.
It's almost like you are going to end up just having your County seat towns, and everything else will be animal farms and corporate farms with the small towns servicing as places to go to a bar and get gas.
this has really expedited over the past 30 years, so I can't imagine another 20-30.
i am also surprised by the number of counties that just have one school.