Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont Community School District


Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont Community School District is a school district headquartered in Eddyville, Iowa.
The district is within Mahaska, Monroe, and Wapello counties, with additional small sections in Davis and Keokuk counties. It serves Eddyville, Blakesburg, Fremont, Chillicothe, and Kirkville. it had about 850 students.

History

It was formed on July 1, 2012 by the merger of the Fremont Community School District and the Eddyville-Blakesburg Community School District. On Tuesday September 13, 2011, the merger was approved in a referendum, with the E-B district voters doing so on a 335-86 basis and the Fremont voters doing so on a 91-60 basis. As part of the merger plans, the pre-merger E-B and Fremont boards were to, for a period, continue to meet while a newly-selected combined EBF board was to already begin business.

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