It was located in portions of Cerro Gordo and Worth counties, and served Manly, Hanlontown, and Plymouth.
[2] In 2007, it enacted a whole grade sharing program with the Nora Springs–Rock Falls Community School District.
[3] The NS-RF school board voted unanimously to accept the proposal on Monday, June 19, 2006,[4] and the two districts formally signed the grade sharing agreement on Thursday, July 20, 2006.
Nora Springs began hosting a combined middle school while Manly began hosting a combined high school.
[7] The vote to merge the districts, held on September 14, 2010,[8] was successful, with North Central voters doing so on a 431–63 (85.35%) basis and Nora Springs–Rock Falls voters doing so on a 437–262 (59.95%) basis.