Manitowoc County WI Archives History - Schools .....Schleswig Jt. 4 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com December 30, 2007, 9:24 pm SCHLESWIG JT. 4 Suspended School legislation passed by the 1927 state legislature made possible the creation of Schleswig Jt. school district No. 4. The development and expansion of the high school in Kiel forced the Kiel school district Jt. No. 1 to build a large new high school. This, naturally, caused school taxes to soar. To get out from under such a tax load the rural residents took advantage of the provisions under section 40.85 passed in 1927 and repealed in 1939. The original petition to detach the SW 1/4 of Sec. 18; all of Sec. 19; the NW 1/4 of W 1/2 of SW 1/4, and SE 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Sec. 20; all of Sec. 29, except the NE 1/4; all of sections 31 and 32; and a part of sections 6 in Rhine township, Sheboygan county, was filed on April 9, 1929, by Chas. Meyer, Jacob Ramminger, and Peter Kautzer in the name of the electors and freeholders in the above described area. A copy of this petition is on file in the county superintendent's office and was signed by 94 electors. The petition was filed originally with the school officers of Kiel Jt. 1. The officers ignored the petition by not acting to carry out the provisions of the petition. Therefore, on May 2, 1929, the electors and freeholders appealed to the Manitowoc county superintendent of schools to call a meeting of the town boards and the school boards of the area involved for the purpose of having orders issued to detach the described properties. Supt. E. S. Mueller, as required by law, on May 13, 1929, called a joint meeting of all members of town boards in which the territory to be detached was located. He further ordered that the described territory be detached from Kiel Jt. 1 school district. At first this territory was attached to Schleswig school district No. 5, but no official papers to that effect are on file in the county superintendent's office. Former Supt. E. S. Mueller states though that the territory was attached to Schleswig No. 5. Then, too, the fact that the assessed valuation for Schleswig No. 5 rose from $445,000 to $716,000 from 1929 to 1930 and then dropped back again to $450,000 in 1931 proves the attachment. Schleswig No. 5, after a few months, was unwilling to accept the children from that territory because there was danger of over-crowded conditions which might force the district to set up a two-room school. This dilemma was solved when the town board of Schleswig, composed of O. C. Heidemann, Jacob Raquet, and Rudolph Quante, and the town board of Rhine, composed of August Willand, Leonard Platz, and Gilbert Dexheimer issued an order on March 21, 1930, to create a new school district to be known as Schleswig joint school district No. 4, joint with Rhine. Schleswig Jt. No. 4 has never built a school house. The annual meetings are held in a hall at Brooklyn, just outside of the city of Kiel. The first school officers were clerk Wm. Zick, director Wm. Buchholz, and treasurer Carl Meyer. Carl, Charles, and Henry Meyer have held the office of treasurer since the district was organized. The office of clerk has been held also by Hubert Nett and John and Walter Johst. The present director is Alvin Henschel. Schleswig Jt. No. 4 began with the names of 79 children of school age on the school census. The average has been about 70 yearly, with the low of 54 school age children in 1941. The grade school children attend school in Kiel, the district from which this area separated. For the past few years about 20 grade children yearly have attended the Kiel public school for which the district has paid a tuition bill of about $2,000 each year. The lowest district school tax levy occurred in 1936 when $200 was raised. The highest levy occurred in 1946 when $3,500 was raised. Some of the grade school children attend the parochial school at Kiel. The future of this district depends upon legislation dealing with suspended school districts and upon the equalization of tax levies throughout the county for elementary schools. Additional Comments: Extracted from: 1848 - 1948 CENTENNIAL HISTORY of the Manitowoc County School Districts and Public School System EDITED BY JOS. J. RAPPEL, COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS 1948 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/manitowoc/history/schools/schleswi235gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/ File size: 4.7 Kb