If I have this wrong I apologize. I don’t live in that precise area anymore.
Didn’t several Bond Issues to build another high school fail. So instead the school district converted an existing school into a high school. Viola - Davenport North High School exists.
Now they need to close schools.
Dumb.
You nailed it John.
We send our kids to a religious school, and would have no matter what the public schools were. I get blasted on a regular basis from my neighbors for “stealing” funding to the Davenport Schools. When I say that my property taxes already pay for them, typically I get told that the property tax isn’t enough. My wife is a teacher, and Davenport blows money like crazy. The super should have been arrested years ago for mismanagement of funds.
Funny thing is that the schools are “full” according to the parents I talk to. I doubt that, as my daughter’s class in the private school has 30 kids, and the same class in the little town I live in has 10. But I do know that the high schools are crowded.
Funny thing is the local small towns really want to build a new high school in West Scott county and get out of the Davenport school system. Even though Iowa allows open enrollment, Davenport does not (they will deny you unless the kid is a low performer).
My wife teaches across the river. They had the same report for “decreasing enrollment”. By the same I mean the same numbers (students, funding, etc). At one of the town halls, a parent came in with census numbers and publicly available enrollment numbers, and called BS. I suspect a similar game is going on in Davenport.