Riverside Community School District


Riverside Community School District is a school district headquartered in Carson, Iowa, within the district's grade 3-5 facility.
The district, entirely in Pottawattamie County, serves Carson, Oakland, and Macedonia.

History

The district formed on July 1, 1993 with the merger of the Carson-Macedonia and Oakland districts.
Circa 2004 Jim Sutton became the superintendent. Before 2012 the district attempted to get two school bonds to replace the high school but voters rejected both measures. Sutton in 2012 asked voters to accept another proposal. A bond valued $15.1 million finally passed in June 2013, with Sutton expressing gratitude. 1,096 voters, including 367 absentee voters approved the measure; as there were 1,805 voters total, including 501 absentee voters, the approval percentage was slightly higher than the 60% necessary to pass the bond.
Sutton left his position in 2016 to work at the Belle Plaine Unified School District 357, citing proximity to his family. Timothy Mitchell, previously the superintendent of Rapid City Area Schools, became superintendent of Riverside in 2016.
The district had 680 students in 2016.

Schools

The Grade PK-2 school is in Oakland, The Grade 3-5 school is in Carson, in the former Riverside Intermediate School.
The Riverside grade 6-12 Middle-High School is south of Oakland in an unincorporated area, in proximity to the junction of Highway 6 and Highway 59. The district began building this in April 2014, which had delays due to summer weather. Previously the high school was in the city of Oakland.
Previously there was a 4-5 school in Macedonia.