Junior high students were moved from the high school building to the new Blackhawk Junior High in LeClaire (now Pleasant Valley Junior High) in 1970. During the mid-1970s, a proposal to renovate and move high school students to Blackhawk Junior High and repurpose the high school building as a junior high, failed.
In 1970, junior high school students were transferred from their current high school facility to the newly constructed Blackhawk Junior High in LeClaire (now Pleasant Valley Junior High). However, during the mid-1970s, an attempt to renovate and relocate high school students to Blackhawk Junior High ultimately failed, with plans to convert the high school building into a junior high school.