West Delaware County Community School District

Welcome from Superintendent Rick Hilbert

Dear Visitor:

On behalf of our community, board of education, and 270 employees, I welcome you to the West Delaware County Community School District web site.

West Delaware County Community School District is a pre-K-12 public school district housed in the city of Manchester and serving the communities of Dundee, Greeley, Manchester, Masonville, and Ryan. We are a rural district of 1,650 students, with approximately 1,100 students bused daily.

West Delaware is a progressive district that offers all-day everyday kindergarten, an alternative kindergarten program, a middle school operating with a true middle school philosophy, a high school that is on block scheduling and an alternative high school program. Our dedicated employees direct a host of successful academic programs including special education and talented and gifted. Our extra-curricular programs in both fine arts and athletics are the pride of the district community. Buildings at all levels are equipped through fiber optic hook-ups with Internet access forcommunication and research (one outlying kindergarten and pre-kindergarten building is hooked up to fiber at the high school through phone lines.)

For the past five years, our staff has been working on curriculum alignment, assessment, and staff development with the goal of improving student achievement.  This involves accurate assessment, with re-teaching opportunities available to students who need them.  While there is still work to be completed, we are encouraged by the gains made in student learning.  We have an ongoing review and revision of curriculum in all areas and dedicated staff members who work to help every student succeed.

We are also spending time and resources to improve all facets of technology in the system.  Our students and parents can access student grades on line at any time, not just at conferences.  Many of our staff are developing web pages for their academic, coaching, and sponsor areas.  We continue to search for other ways to use technology to improve both internal and external communication and student performance.

We invite you to visit some of the more specific Internet Web Sites listed on the West Delaware home page at www.w-delaware.k12.ia.us. Thanks for visiting!

Sincerely,

Rick Hilbert
Superintendent of Schools
601 New Street
Manchester, Iowa 52057
(563) 927-3515
rickhilbert@w-delaware.k12.ia.us