Editing Callender, Iowa (section)

==Education==
It is in the [[Southeast Valley Community School District]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://educateiowa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-04/FY24_SOUTHEAST%20VALLEY.pdf|title=SOUTHEAST VALLEY 2022-2023|publisher=[[Iowa Department of Education]]|access-date=2023-11-11}}</ref> [[Southeast Valley High School]] in Gowrie is that district's comprehensive high school.

Callender was formerly part of the [[Prairie Valley Community School District]],<ref>"[https://educateiowa.gov/sites/files/ed/documents/SDRP2017_PRAIRIE%20VALLEY.pdf Prairie Valley] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180427125038/https://www.educateiowa.gov/sites/files/ed/documents/SDRP2017_PRAIRIE%20VALLEY.pdf |date=2018-04-27 }}." [[Iowa Department of Education]]. Retrieved on February 25, 2019.</ref> which formed on July 1, 1993 with the merger of the Cedar Valley Community School District and the Prairie Community School District.<ref>"[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 February 23, 2019.</ref> In 2023 that district merged into the Southeast Valley district.<ref name=Sheabilloff>{{cite web|last=Shea|first=Bill|url=https://www.messengernews.net/news/local-news/2023/06/southeast-valley-to-become-official/|title=Southeast Valley to become official|newspaper=[[The Messenger (newspaper)|The Messenger]]|place=[[Fort Dodge, Iowa]]|date=2023-06-30|access-date=2023-11-11}}</ref>

The elementary school for the school district was in Callender from 1994 until 2010. The middle school was near [[Farnhamville, Iowa|Farnhamville]] and the high school was in [[Gowrie, Iowa|Gowrie]]. Before that, Callender was the elementary and middle school for Prairie Community, a consolidated school district including [[Moorland, Iowa|Moorland]], Callender, Gowrie, and [[Lanyon, Iowa|Lanyon]]. From 1962 until 1974 Callender, Moorland and Gowrie each had elementary schools. Callender also had a junior high school and Gowrie also had a high school.{{citation needed|date=February 2019}}