- Source: List of school districts in Iowa
This is a list of school districts in Iowa, sorted by Area Education Agencies (AEA).
Districts are listed by their official names, though several schools use "Schools" in their name or website rather than "Community School District".
As of July 2020, this list has not been expanded to include former school districts.
School districts have several classifications. They are counted as separate governments by the U.S. Census Bureau. Iowa has no school systems dependent on another layer of government.
Background
In the early 1900s the state had 4,873 school districts. The state government passed the Consolidated School of Law of 1906 and this figure fell to 4,863 in 1908, 4,839 in 1922, and 4,558 in 1953. That year some additional laws were passed that contributed to reducing this further, and so this fell further to 458 as of July 1, 1965; that year another law made providing a high school mandatory for a school district, which meant school districts that had one room schoolhouses were required to consolidate. The deadline for such mergers to be finalized was April 1, 1966, with mergers themselves to occur on July 1 of that year.
By July 1, 1980, the number of districts was down to 443. In 1984, there were 437 school districts in the state that operated high schools. In 1990 the total number of school districts was 430. In fall 1995 the number of school districts operating high schools was down to 353, and in 1995 670 was the median enrollment K-12 of an Iowa school district. An Iowa Department of Education consultant named Guy Ghan referred to the 1990s school district mergers as the "third wave".
The total number of school districts was 365 on July 1, 2005. In the 2016–2017 school year there were 333 school districts, an 11% decrease from the same figure in 2000.
Circa the 1980s school districts began agreements to share resources, such as particular employees, or "whole grade sharing" (where students of one or more grade levels are sent to a different school district to get their education). In 2005 Tom Vilsack, the Governor of Iowa, proposed that requirements for school districts to have certain numbers of students or sharing employees as ways of reducing local government spending, though Vilsack never enacted those requirements. In 2007 Josh Nelson of The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier wrote that "Lately, consolidation hasn't been as big of an issue compared to previous years."
By 2016 population losses in rural areas have fueled further school district consolidations. By 2017 there had been school districts that had formed from different generations of school consolidations.
Central Rivers AEA
= Black Hawk County
== Bremer County
== Buchanan County
== Butler County
== Cerro Gordo County
== Chickasaw County
=Nashua-Plainfield Community School District (also extends into Bremer, Butler and Floyd Counties)
= Floyd County
== Franklin County
== Grundy County
== Hancock County
== Hardin County
== Marshall County
== Mitchell County
== Poweshiek County
== Tama County
== Winnebago County
== Worth County
== Wright County
=Belmond–Klemme Community School District (also extends into Hancock County)
Grant Wood AEA
= Benton County
== Cedar County
=North Cedar Community School District (of Stanwood) (also extends into Jones County)
Tipton Community School District
West Branch Community School District (also extends into Johnson County)
= Iowa County
== Johnson County
== Jones County
== Linn County
== Washington County
=Great Prairie AEA
= Appanoose County
== Davis County
=Davis County Community School District
= Des Moines County
== Henry County
== Jefferson County
== Keokuk County
== Lee County
== Louisa County
== Lucas County
=Chariton Community School District
= Mahaska County
== Monroe County
=Albia Community School District
= Van Buren County
=Van Buren County Community School District
= Wapello County
== Wayne County
=Green Hills AEA
= Adair County
== Adams County
=Corning Community School District
= Carroll County
=IKM–Manning Community School District (also extends into Crawford and Shelby Counties)
= Cass County
== Clarke County
== Decatur County
== Fremont County
== Harrison County
== Mills County
== Montgomery County
== Page County
== Pottawattamie County
== Ringgold County
== Shelby County
=Harlan Community School District (also extends into Harrison County)
= Taylor County
== Union County
== Wayne County
=Mormon Trail Community School District
Heartland AEA
= Audubon County
=Audubon Community School District
= Boone County
== Carroll County
== Dallas County
== Guthrie County
== Jasper County
== Madison County
== Marion County
== Polk County
== Shelby County
=Exira–Elk Horn–Kimballton Community School District (also extends into Audubon County)
Harlan Community School District
= Story County
== Warren County
=Keystone AEA
= Allamakee County
== Chickasaw County
=New Hampton Community School District
= Clayton County
== Delaware County
== Dubuque County
== Fayette County
== Howard County
== Winneshiek County
=Mississippi Bend AEA
= Cedar County
== Clinton County
== Jackson County
== Louisa County
=Columbus Community School District (also extends into Muscatine County)
Louisa–Muscatine Community School District (also extends into Muscatine County)
= Muscatine County
== Scott County
=Northwest AEA
= Cherokee County
== Crawford County
== Ida County
== Lyon County
== Monona County
== O'Brien County
== Osceola County
=Sibley-Ocheyedan Community School District
= Plymouth County
== Sioux County
== Woodbury County
=Prairie Lakes AEA
= Buena Vista County
== Calhoun County
=Manson–Northwest Webster Community School District (also extends into Webster County)
South Central Calhoun Community School District
= Clay County
=Clay Central–Everly Community School District (also extends into Dickinson and O'Brien Counties)
Spencer Community School District
= Dickinson County
== Emmet County
=Estherville–Lincoln Central Community School District (also extends into Tama County)
North Union Community School District (also extends into Kossuth and Palo Alto Counties)
= Greene County
== Hamilton County
== Humboldt County
== Kossuth County
== Palo Alto County
== Pocahontas County
== Sac County
== Webster County
== Wright County
=See also
List of high schools in Iowa
List of private schools in Iowa
Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/High schools/US/Iowa
Iowa Department of Education
References
Anderson, Christopher L. (2009). School District Reorganization in Iowa: Considerations for Administrators, School Boards, and Communities (PhD thesis) (PDF) (Dissertation). Drake University.
= Reference notes
=Further reading
"Iowa School Districts 2023-2024" (PDF). Iowa Department of Education – via Clinton County, Iowa.
"Iowa Public School District Consolidation". Iowa Policy Research Organization. December 2010. - On the servers of the University of Iowa
Sherman, William (October 25, 2015). "Iowa suffers when schools consolidate". Des Moines Register. - Letter to the editor
District Reorganization at the Wayback Machine (archived 2005-11-12) - Includes reports from the 1990s on school consolidation
Ghan, Guy W. (January 1990). "Iowa School Reorganization: Where It Has Been and Where It Is Going?" (PDF). Iowa Department of Education.
External links
Iowa Department of Education's maps of Iowa school districts
Iowa's Lost Schools at archive.today (archived 2018-07-09) - Des Moines Register article series about rural school district consolidations and closures of schools
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