After having gone through getting a bond issue passed, that needed 60% approval, I would say that the people in the outside areas would not support the new school if it was moved to Polk City. I really have no idea, maybe it was not even brought up when they decided to build the new school.They only built the new HS like 10 years ago and the growth in Polk City was well underway, and it was absolutely where a vast majority of the students resided at that time. It was already about 10x the size of Alleman.
If that’s what their students and parents wanted, then so be it. But looking at an area map, deciding to build the new school where the old one is because spatially it’s in the center, while making a vast majority of the students travel 9 miles is one of the most Iowa things ever.
People hate change when we are talking about schools, and it could have been people just did not want to see the HS in Polk City because it was always in Alleman, and they wanted to keep it there.