Clarion, Goldfield, and Dows enrollment, 1972-2024

Enrollment in 2023-24 for the Clarion-Goldfield-Dows school district, the 13th-largest in Iowa by area, was that of Clarion alone roughly half a century earlier. The Goldfield school building was closed in 2008 and is to be demolished in the third quarter of 2024.

Due to data limitations, Clarion-Goldfield's line starts in 1986, when the two districts began sharing, but they did not merge until 1993. Dows had its own high school until 1997, then shared with CAL until 2005. The line for CGD starts with official consolidation in 2014.
Chart: Jeff Morrison, Iowa Highway Ends/Between Two RiversSource: Iowa Department of EducationGet the dataCreated with Datawrapper