Rake Community School District was a school district serving Rake, Iowa, and the surrounding rural area in northwestern Winnebago, and northeastern Kossuth County.
Rake High School's 1975 graduating class, for example, had only 13 members, with just eight students in the second grade.
On July 1, 1975, the Rake School District and the nearby Buffalo Center Community School District, located 6 miles (9.7 km) to the south, in Buffalo Center, a town of 1200, began sharing a Superintendent of Schools; Buffalo Center's then-superintendent assuming the role.
At the time, no other school districts in Iowa had made this kind of arrangement.
In a 1995 report, co-authored by William H. Dreier of the University of Northern Iowa and Ronald Pilgrim, superintendent of the then-Buffalo Center–Rake–Lakota Community School District, the 1977 vote failed by "a slim margin" in Rake, though voters in Buffalo Center had approved it - but that the voters in both Buffalo Center and Rake had "overwhelmingly approved" the 1978 referendum.