Editing Thompson, Iowa (section)

==Education==
The independent school district of Thompson was incorporated in 1894. Thompson High School graduated its first class in 1900, and its last class in 1989. Thompson's horse drawn school bus was replaced by a motorized school bus in 1909.<ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last=Centennial Book Committee |title=A peek at the past ... Thompson, Iowa, 1892-1992. A good place to call home |year=1992 |pages=23}}</ref>

Thompson is now within the [[North Iowa Community School District]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://educateiowa.gov/sites/files/ed/documents/SDRP2017_NORTH%20IOWA.pdf|title=North Iowa|publisher=[[Iowa Department of Education]]|accessdate=2019-08-02}}</ref> which was established on July 1, 1996, by the merger of the [[Buffalo Center–Rake–Lakota Community School District]] and the [[Thompson Community School District]]. There was a Buffalo Center School District that merged with the Rake School District to form the Buffalo Center-Rake district on July 1, 1978. On July 1, 1992, that district merged with the Lakota School District to form the Buffalo Center–Rake–Lakota district, and that district merged into North Iowa in 1996.<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=2019-08-01}}</ref>