(Adair, Iowa) – The Adair-Casey/Guthrie Center School District Boards of Education will meet 7-p.m. Wednesday (Feb. 28th), in the AC/GC Junior High Media Center, in Adair. On the agenda for their combined Work Session, is discussion with regard to Whole Grade Sharing. No action is expected. According to the Iowa Department of Education, “Whole grade sharing as a procedure used by school districts whereby all or a substantial portion of the pupils in any grade in two or more school districts share an educational program for all or a substantial portion of a school day under a written agreement pursuant to the Iowa Code. Whole grade sharing may either be one-way or two-way sharing.

Starting with the 2016-2017 school year, the Adair-Casey District entered into a Whole Grade Sharing Agreement with the Guthrie Center Schools, thereby starting a new chapter in the school district. Elementary students within the school district in grades Pre-school through 6 attend school at the Adair-Casey Elementary campus. Junior high (grades 7 and 8) join students from Guthrie Center and attend the AC/GC Junior High at the Adair-Casey campus. Grades 9 through 12 from both Adair-Casey and Guthrie Center attend the AC/GC High School at the high school campus in Guthrie Center.