Grundy Center Community School District, also known as Grundy Center Community Schools, is a rural public school district headquartered in Grundy Center, Iowa. It operates Grundy Center Elementary School and Grundy Center Secondary School.
The school district is in Grundy County, with a small section of the district extending into northwest Tama County, and the district includes Grundy Center and Holland.
The school's mascot is the Spartan. Their colors are maroon and white.
As of the 2020âÂÂ21 school year, the district operated three schools.
Cassi Murra served as superintendent until she moved to be superintendent of the Knoxville Community School District in 2014. Jerry Schutz began serving as superintendent that year.
Neil Mullen originally was to begin his role as superintendent on July 1, 2018. However, Mullen began on March 1 because Schutz later took another job that began before July 1.
By February 20, 2019, the Grundy Center district was looking for another superintendent. Rob Hughes was scheduled to begin his role as superintendent of both Grundy Center CSD and of AplingtonâÂÂParkersburg Community School District effective July 1, 2019. In March 2021, Hughes resigned from his position as a shared superintendent and became a full-time superintendent for Grundy Center.
Schools in the district (with 2020âÂÂ21 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:
The Spartans compete in the North Iowa Cedar League Conference in the following sports:
Previously the football team had a rivalry with GladbrookâÂÂReinbeck High School that began circa 1908; circa 2017, the GladbrookâÂÂReinbeck team was moved to an eight-man division, forcing the rivalry to end.