They are Iowa's third and fourth charter schools ... "In order to be a viable community, you have to have a high school," Hamburg Charter School Superintendent Mike Wells said.

Prior to Thursday, Iowa's only charter schools were high schools in Storm Lake and in Maynard. Hamburg aims to have high school reinstated Thursday marked the third time the Hamburg school ...

Hopes were high in January after the Iowa State Board of Education ... the main reasons being the size of the school and concerns over sustainability. Hamburg closed its high school in 2011 ...

Hamburg Comm School District contains 3 schools and 174 students. The district’s minority enrollment is 10%. Also, 54.6% of students are economically disadvantaged. The student body at the ...

The State Board of Education today voted unanimously against a plan to bring back a high school in Hamburg. Superintendent Mike Wells proposed a plan to resurrect high school classes under a ...

Mixed feelings were expressed at that meeting, echoing previous acrimony in 2012, when Hamburg students said they felt unwelcome at the new joint high ... Iowa Department of Education’s School ...

Hamburg residents held ... Next week, Dr. Wells, the school superintendent, was scheduled to ask state officials for permission to reopen the town’s high school, a move seen as crucial to ...