 Meservey-Thornton, in turn, formed in 1963 from the merger of the Meservey Community School District and the Thornton Community School District.The Consolidated Independent School District of Meservey, Iowa was seeking a builder for its school in the 1920s.The Meservey school building was built in the 1940s (as a Works Progress Administration project) as a K-12 facility for Meservey High school.