South Hamilton Community School District


South Hamilton Community School District is a public school district headquartered in Jewell, Iowa. It includes an elementary school and a middle/high school.
The district is mostly in Hamilton County with a section in Boone County. It serves Jewell Junction, Ellsworth, Randall, and Stanhope.

History

Circa 1998, there was a bond that would allow the district to change the grade configuration; at the time it had grades 5-12 in the secondary school building, originally intended only as a senior high school, while it hoped to have only grades 7-12 there, with students until grade 5 in the elementary school.
In 2006, there were parents in the Hubbard-Radcliffe Community School District who preferred to send their children to South Hamilton schools instead of the Eldora-New Providence district, which Hubbard-Radcliffe had a grade-sharing agreement with. Parents in the western portion of Hubbard-Radcliffe preferred the idea of that district grade-sharing with South Hamilton instead of Eldora-New Providence. Some parents preferring the South Hamilton district purchased a bus to transport their childen there. Tom Barton of the WCF Courier wrote that "many" Hubbard-Radcliffe parents chose South Hamilton schools.