WHITING, Iowa (KCAU) — The Whiting Community School is seeing its school budget shrink year after year, and now, officials are turning to their community for help. This comes as enrollment numbers have dropped for the school.

Whiting's superintendent said student enrollment is down nearly 30 kids compared to the 2024-25 academic year.

"We have faced declining enrollment for quite a number of years, as many small schools in the area have. Our issue becomes getting to the number of students where it's getting tough to run some of the programming you want to and so on," said Marty Fonley, the superintendent with Whiting Community School.

This school year, Whiting has 106 students in its K-12 building, compared to roughly 130 last year. And, these declining enrollment numbers mean less mone

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