of 18 living with them, 52.0% were married couples living together, 8.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 39.0% were non-families. 34.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 20.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.05 and the average family size was 2.60. In the city, the population was spread out, with 16.7% under the age of 18, 7.5% from 18 to 24, 21.8% from 25 to 44, 26.6% from 45 to 64, and 27.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 48 years. For every 100 females, there were 93.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.2 males. The median income for a household in the city was $32,500, and the median income for a family was $36,042. Males had a median income of $28,438 versus $16,406 for females. The per capita income for the city was $16,043. About 7.2% of families and 8.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 20.0% of those under the age of eighteen and none of those 65 or over. Schools Meservey is part of the West Fork Community School District, formed in 2011 by the merger of the Sheffield–Chapin–Meservey–Thornton (SCMT) Community School District and the Rockwell–Swaledale Community School District. Meservey became a part of the West Fork whole grade-sharing school system, prior to the official merging of districts, as of the 2008–09 school year. SCMT was formed in 2007 by the merger of the Meservey–Thornton Community School District and the Sheffield–Chapin Community School District. Meservey–Thornton, in turn, formed in 1963 from the merger of the Meservey Community School District and the Thornton Community School District. Meservey School 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. In 1963, it became an elementary and junior high school for the combined Meservey–Thornton school district. At a later time it became elementary school only as junior high classes were moved to Thornton. Due to declining enrollments, the building was closed in 1983, when all K–12 classes met in the Thornton facility. In 1988, Meservey–Thornton began whole-grade sharing with Sheffield–Chapin school district. The Meservey school