Location of De - Witt, Iowa Location of De - Witt, Iowa De - Witt is a town/city in Clinton County, Iowa, United States.
The populace was 5,322 at the 2010 census, which is a 5.2% increase from the 2000 census, making it the quickest burgeoning city in Clinton County.
7.2 Central Intermediate School 7.3 Central Middle School 7.4 Central High School De - Witt was platted in 1841. The town/city started under the name Vandenburg, but was later titled after De - Witt Clinton (1769 1828), an early American politician who served as United States Senator and 7th Governor of New York. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 5.98 square miles (15.49 km2), all of it land. Until 1971 The Milwaukee Road entered De - Witt from the north and ran along 12th Street before crossing the tracks of the former Chicago & Northwestern south into Scott County.
By 1980 both highways were moved to new alignments around the south and west sides of De - Witt.
De - Witt is home to the Central De - Witt Community School District.
In addition to De - Witt, the close-by cities of Grand Mound, Low Moor, and Welton are also a part the school district. Due to a popular vote in November 2015, the name of the precinct was changed from Central Clinton Community School District.
The District was formed in 1958 with the schools in De - Witt, Grand Mound, Welton and Low Moor.
The 9 through 12 classes were moved to the new High School on the east side of De - Witt.
Kindergarten through 4th remained at De - Witt School.
De - Witt students of 5th or 6th were bussed to either Grand Mound or Welton.
If a student was at either Grand Mound or Welton, they were bussed to the other school for the other.
This was changed so the student would go the same school for the 6th grade.
After the new elementary school was opened in De - Witt in 1970, students stayed in their small-town school until 6th grade.
The Junior and High School portions was closed in the 1960s.
Ekstrand Elementary School is positioned in De - Witt and serves students in pre-kindergarten through undertaking 3.
Built in 1970, the school is titled for former principal and precinct superintendent Carl Ekstrand. Located in De - Witt, it is the former middle school, and became the Intermediate School, due to the new middle school that was assembled and attached to the other side of the high school.
The Intermediate School homes grades 4-6.
Located in De - Witt, a new middle school, was assembled in 2011 as part of an expansion universal to the high school.
Located in De - Witt, Central High School homes grades nine through twelve. The first high school in De - Witt was assembled in 1928 and was a total of 3 stories tall with the cafeteria and school gymnasium on the basement level, teachers lounge and bureaus on the first level, the majority of classrooms on the second level, and a several minor classes and equipment storage on the third level.
When a new school was assembled in 1959, the three story building was reconfigured into a junior high.
By the late 1980s it was decided that the school was becoming too costly to maintain and bring up to code and because the school lacked certain undivided necessities like it wasn't handicap accessible and had asbestos inside its walls and was finally completed in 1995.
The new school's need for increased space has resulted in a recent $1.891 million addition.
In 2010, another expansion universal was started, creating a new middle school, new high school offices, a several new classrooms, renovation of the old high school, a new library that attaches the Intermediate, Middle and High school, a world-class performing arts center, and new athletic facilities. Central De - Witt High School won state championships in boys basketball in 1981, girls basketball in 1994, and boys cross nation in 2000 and 2001.
The De - Witt Observer serves as De - Witt's major small-town newspaper.
In addition to De - Witt, The Observer also serves much of non-urban easterly Clinton County. City of De - Witt Elected Officials, 2008, accessed 2008-12-22.
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