Editing Grand Mound, Iowa (section)

==Education==
Grand Mound is part of the [[Central DeWitt Community School District]], based in DeWitt,<ref>"[https://educateiowa.gov/sites/files/ed/documents/SDRP2017_CENTRAL%20DEWITT.pdf Central DeWitt]." [[Iowa Department of Education]]. Retrieved on November 8, 2018.</ref> known as the Central Clinton Community School District until July 1, 2014.<ref name=Mergerlist>"[https://www.educateiowa.gov/sites/files/ed/documents/District%20Reorganization%20History%20final.pdf REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209124738/https://www.educateiowa.gov/sites/files/ed/documents/District%20Reorganization%20History%20final.pdf |date=2019-02-09 }}." [[Iowa Department of Education]]. Retrieved on July 20, 2018.</ref>

Until 2001, elementary-aged students attended Grand Mound Elementary School with older students being bused to DeWitt.{{Citation needed|date=November 2018}}

Grand Mound Elementary was on a property of about {{convert|4|acre|ha}} (35 rods, 10 feet by 18 rods). The first school building was built in 1917.<ref name=ReedJenoldbldgs>{{cite news|author=Reed, Jennifer|url=https://qctimes.com/news/local/central-elementary-students-crowd-into-old-buildings/article_d0521b15-bc67-5c7e-9f3b-149eb2feaff9.html|title=Central elementary students crowd into old buildings |newspaper=[[Quad City Times]]|date=2001-03-02|access-date=2018-11-08}}</ref> Another school building, from 1954,<ref name=DorpinghausChurch/> had a cafeteria, a gymnasium, and two classrooms. In 1995 the district closed the original building because it was deemed to be structurally unsafe and its roof was in a poor condition. Circa 1999 that building was demolished. After the demolition the cafeteria began serving as an office, a school nurse area, and a reading and speech therapy instruction area. By 2001 Grand Mound Elementary served Kindergarten and the first grade.<ref name=ReedJenoldbldgs/> Grand Mound Elementary had 38 students in the 1998–1999 school year,<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20000525141520/http://www.central-clinton.k12.ia.us/Graphics/District/New_Folder/page5.htm Central Elementary, Grand Mound Building]." Central Clinton Community School District. May 25, 2000. Retrieved on November 8, 2018.</ref> and by 2001 the enrollment was down to 35. Grand Mound students used the library, media and computer facilities at [[Welton, Iowa|Welton]] Elementary.<ref name=ReedJenoldbldgs/>

Circa 2001 there was a bond proposal to expand the elementary schools in DeWitt, which would have centralized services and facilities for the handicapped, and close the schools in Grand Mound and Welton.<ref name=ReedJenoldbldgs/> By 2002 the school closed, and was sold to God's Family Baptist Church.<ref name=DorpinghausChurch>{{cite news|author=Dorpinghaus, Anne|url=https://qctimes.com/news/local/grand-mound-elementary-school-slated-to-become-a-church/article_ab75b99c-5515-5cb4-939f-0f1f2bdee7b7.html|title=Grand Mound Elementary School slated to become a church |newspaper=[[Quad City Times]]|date=2002-12-17|access-date=2018-11-08}}</ref> After the closure of Grand Mound (due to declining enrollment and concerns about the building's structural condition), students were bused to elementary schools in Welton and DeWitt; today (with Welton also closed), all elementary-aged students attend school in DeWitt.

Prior to the formation of the Central Clinton School District, Grand Mound had its own junior-senior high school, which operated in the same school building as the elementary school. Sports teams were known as the Cardinals. The last graduating senior class was in 1961, when Grand Mound—along with the Welton and DeWitt school districts—consolidated to form the Central Community School District.