Editing Alton, Iowa (section)

==Education==
[[MOC-Floyd Valley Community School District]] is the local school district.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://educateiowa.gov/sites/files/ed/documents/FY20_MOC-FLOYD%20VALLEY.pdf|title=MOC-Floyd Valley|publisher=[[Iowa Department of Education]]|accessdate=2020-03-27|archive-date=March 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200327080306/https://educateiowa.gov/sites/files/ed/documents/FY20_MOC-FLOYD%20VALLEY.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> The district formed on July 1, 1994 with the merger of the Maurice-Orange City and Floyd Valley districts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.educateiowa.gov/sites/files/ed/documents/District%20Reorganization%20History%20final.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209124738/https://www.educateiowa.gov/sites/files/ed/documents/District%20Reorganization%20History%20final.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2019-02-09|title=REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTIONS SINCE 1965-66|publisher=[[Iowa Department of Education]]|accessdate=2020-03-22}}</ref> Alton houses the district's middle school while elementary and high schools are in [[Orange City, Iowa|Orange City]].

[[Spalding Catholic School]], which serves elementary grades, is located in a single campus in Alton. It was previously a [[K-8 school]] and had multiple campuses, with middle school in [[Granville, Iowa|Granville]], but the Granville campus closed in 2017, and middle school students are now attending Gehlen Catholic School in [[LeMars, Iowa|LeMars]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Mahoney, Mark|url=https://www.nwestiowa.com/news/spalding-catholic-is-all-together-now/article_7bc580ce-da1a-11e7-a4e9-af7ee4208e0e.html|title=Spalding Catholic is all together|work=Nwestiowa.com|publisher=Iowa Information Publishers and Printers|date=2017-12-06|accessdate=2020-04-05}}</ref> The associated Spalding Catholic High closed in 2013 with students merged into [[Gehlen Catholic High School]].<ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[KTIV]]|url=http://www.ktiv.com/story/23234109/2013/08/22/first-day-at-gehlen-spalding-merger|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021234504/http://www.ktiv.com/story/23234109/2013/08/22/first-day-at-gehlen-spalding-merger|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 21, 2013|title=First bell rings for merged Gehlen, Spalding school|date= August 22, 2013|accessdate=October 8, 2013|first= Kayah |last=Gausman}}</ref>