Spencer, Iowa – One of Spencer’s school buildings won’t be opening this fall due to flood damage and about 500 third, fourth and fifth graders who would have been starting school at Lincoln Elementary next month will attend classes in other buildings in the district. Spencer Community Schools superintendent Terry Hemann.
Third and fourth graders will go to two other elementary buildings in the district. Fifth graders will go to Spencer’s middle school.
Classes start August 23rd in Spencer. Online registration is underway through August 11th.
Last week, the head Iowa Department of Education said her agency was rounding up portable classrooms for Spencer and Rock Valley schools. Spencer’s superintendent says his district came up with its plan to shift students to other buildings in the district because there was greater need in Rock Valley schools. Like Spencer, Rock Valley was hard hit by flash flooding in June.
