Mabel-Canton Public Schools

Mabel-Canton Public Schools (MC I.S.D. #238) is a school district headquartered in Mabel, Minnesota.[1] The district, which also serves Canton, has a single campus with all grades, K-12.

It includes sections of Fillmore County and Houston County.[2][3] It also has an agreement with the Decorah Community School District to take students from parts of Winneshiek County, Iowa.

As of 2018 the district had a total of about 280 students.[4] Another school district document circa 2020 gave the enrollment count as 283. The area of the district is 116.42 square miles (301.5 km2).[5]

History

On July 1, 1966, the consolidated school district, a merger of the Mabel and Canton schools, opened. The district began using blue and white as school colors, with one each from a predecessor district. Red is used as an "accent color".[5]

In 2001 the North Winneshiek Community School District ended its high school program. That year it entered into an agreement with Mabel-Canton Schools to allow students from its boundary to attend the Mabel-Canton high school program.[6]

In 2018 the combined interim board of Decorah Community School District and North Winneshiek district in Iowa approved an agreement with Mabel-Canton, effective for five years, to allow students in the former North Winneshiek district boundary to attend Mabel-Canton if they choose.[7] Decorah CSD had absorbed North Winneshiek CSD effective July 1, 2018.[8] The agreement applies to any post-merger resident of Decorah CSD who is geographically closer to Mabel than to Decorah, Iowa, where all Decorah CSD campuses are located.[9] In April 2019 the Mabel-Canton district anticipated that an additional 15-20 students from North Winn would begin attending Mabel-Canton in the start of the subsequent school year.[10]

In 2018 the Minnesota Legislature gave the district $433,500 to improve the security of its campus.[11] This was in response to a wave of school shootings occurring elsewhere in the country.[4]

Campus

The school gymnasium has the logos of the two predecessor districts and of the North Winneshiek district. Phil Richert, a former North Winneshiek board member, donated the North Winneshiek logo in a period prior to 2020, inspiring the Mabel-Canton leadership to get the other two.[12]

References
  1. "Home". Mabel-Canton Public Schools. Retrieved August 12, 2021. 316 W. Filmore Ave., Mabel, MN 55954
  2. "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Fillmore County, MN" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  3. "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Houston County, MN" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  4. "Mabel-Canton District receives $433,500 state grant to improve school security". Bluff Country Newspaper Group. October 16, 2018. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  5. "The Making of Mabel-Canton School District #238". Mabel-Canton Public Schools. Retrieved April 6, 2020. - Linked from home page under "M-C Info"
  6. "North Winneshiek Community School History". North Winneshiek Community School District. Archived from the original on October 10, 2015. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
  7. "Interim Board approves reciprocity agreement with Mabel-Canton for five years". Decorah Newspapers. October 22, 2018. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  8. "Iowa Educational Directory 2019-2020 School Year" (PDF). Iowa Department of Education. p. 175. Retrieved April 5, 2020. (PDF p. 177/186) - From section "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66"
  9. "Mabel-Canton, Decorah sign enrollment agreement for students on the border". Bluff Country Newspaper Group. February 8, 2019. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  10. Basco, Isabella (April 3, 2019). "Families consider options once North Winneshiek School District closes". KIMT. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  11. Johnson, Annalise (October 23, 2018). "Mabel-Canton receives funding for school security updates". KIMT. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  12. Warner, Charlie (February 6, 2020). "M-C gym now adorned with logos from three former school districts". Bluff Country Newspapers. Archived from the original on March 24, 2020.

Further reading
Maps of Iowa areas which send students to this district
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