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This is a list of school districts in Iowa, sorted alphabetically (last updated July, 2020). District are listed by their official name, though several schools use "Schools" in their name or website rather than "Community School District". The list has not been expanded to include former school districts at this time (July 2020).

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,.[1] and 4,558 in 1953.[2] 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,[3] which meant school districts that had one room schoolhouses were required to consolidate.[4]

By July 1, 1980, the number of districts was down to 443, in 1990 it was 430, and then 365 on July 1, 2005.[1] In the 2016–2017 school year there were 333 school districts, an 11% decrease from the same figure in 2000.[5]

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 WCF Courier wrote that "Lately, consolidation hasn't been as big of an issue compared to previous years."[4]

By 2016 population losses in rural areas have fueled further school district consolidations.[6] By 2017 there had been school districts that had formed from different generations of school consolidations.[7]

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References

  • Anderson, Christopher L. (November 2009). "School District Reorganization in Iowa: Considerations for Administrators, School Boards, and Communities (PhD thesis)" (PDF). Drake University. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

Reference notes

  1. ^ a b "REORGANIZATION & DISSOLUTION ACTION SINCE 1965-66" (PDF). Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved 2021-03-04. - The milestones for 1980, 1990, and 2005 were referred to in Anderson, p. 18 (PDF p. 26/118).
  2. ^ "DISTRICT NAME CHANGES". Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved 2021-03-07.
  3. ^ Anderson, p. 18 (PDF p. 26/118).
  4. ^ a b Nelson, Josh (2007-03-11). "School ties". WCF Courier. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
  5. ^ Patane, Matthew (2018-04-30). "How we got here: School consolidation leads to 11 percent drop in number of districts". The Gazette. Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
  6. ^ Vujicic, Aleksandra (2016-05-29). "More rural Iowa school districts plan to close their doors". Des Moines Register. Retrieved 2021-03-07.
  7. ^ Duffy, Molly (2017-02-20). "Iowa school districts cope with when to consolidate - and when to stand alone". The Gazette. Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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