Meservey–Thornton Community School District
Meservey–Thornton Community School District was a school district headquartered in Thornton, Iowa, serving Thornton and Meservey. History It formed in 1963 as the result of the merger between the Meservey Community School District and the Thornton Community School District. The district initially operated schools in both Meservey and Thornton. It closed the school in Meservey in 1983. In fall 1988 the district began a whole-grade sharing agreement, in which students from one school district attend another district's schools for certain levels, with the Sheffield–Chapin Community School District. At that point the Sheffield building hosted the senior high school (grades 9–12) while Thornton building housed the middle school (grades 5–8). These two districts together entered into a whole grade-sharing agreement with the Rockwell–Swaledale Community School District at the high school level in 2004; the Rockwell–Swaledale and Sheffield–Chapin–Meservey–Thornton high schools at the time remained separate but shared students and programs. On July 1, 2007, Sheffield–Chapin and Meservey–Thornton legally merged into the Sheffield–Chapin–Meservey–Thornton (SCMT) Community School District. Schools Upon the district's formation it had its elementary and middle school grades in Meservey while its high school was in Thornton. The mascot of the Thornton School was the Lancers. The Thornton school had been