Iowa High School BEDS count 24-25

[ISU_Guy]

Norwalk? You might want to do some research

exactly, Norwalk and DCG are starting to become one of the most consistent winning schools in a lot of sports at the highest class and growing. so probably not a good idea to throw them into that league.

I think you will eventually see a new league formed with Indianola, Norwalk, DCG, Urbandale, Ames involved. and then schools that are not quite there yet, but will be at some point are North Polk, Bondurant, Gilbert.
Talk about a travel-friendly league.

that will cause some shifting of some other small leagues, but who knows. Will be interesting to follow.

 

[theshadow]

I’m not familiar with that part of the state, but it seems like it’s at the point that the associations need to blow it all up and do districts every couple of years and apply them to all sports. Then if schools want to schedule local traditional rivals across classes they can do it in the non-con.

IHSAA/IGHSAU are not going to waste time worrying about who's winning conference titles. Schools and conferences have the ability to do what they think is best for themselves.

Other than football, everybody makes the postseason in every sport. So the classification is the only thing that matters.

 

[mustangcy]

Norwalk? You might want to do some research

Research for what? Norwalk is in the Little Hawkeye conference with Osky/Pella/etc. and is also geographically closer to Knoxville than most of the other SCC schools. I guess you mean that Norwalk is good? Ok, I guess, Knoxville still belongs in that conference more than with Eddyville/Cardinal/Davis County.

 

[CloneJD]

I think you will eventually see a new league formed with Indianola, Norwalk, DCG, Urbandale, Ames involved. and then schools that are not quite there yet, but will be at some point are North Polk, Bondurant, Gilbert.
Talk about a travel-friendly league.

DCG and Norwalk will go straight to CIML soon. They are already competitive with CIML in most sports.

 

[Kinch]

The SCC is made up of county seat teams that outside of a couple schools don’t have a lot of open enrollment ins. That is what Van Buren is. They compete against mostly 1

Early 80s, but yeah. Coach Gerard led us to a 7-2 season in 1980, but in those days you almost had to go undefeated or 8-1 to make the playoffs.

greatest moment at state boys track meet involved A cardinal runner. Within 10 minutes in the 100 meter finals four state records set. One was an Adam’s kid from Cardinal.

 

[CloneJD]

Research for what? Norwalk is in the Little Hawkeye conference with Osky/Pella/etc. and is also geographically closer to Knoxville than most of the other SCC schools. I guess you mean that Norwalk is good? Ok, I guess, Knoxville still belongs in that conference more than with Eddyville/Cardinal/Davis County

Knoxville left LHC in 2014 because they got their ass kicked in all sports. Norwalk/DCG/Indianola are more than double their size.

They belong in SCC who voted to accept them in 2014.

 

[1SEIACLONE]

Cardinal is a 2A school with average 1A athletic talent for most sports. I'd like to see Van Buren move to the SCC.

It was a mistake for Cardinal to join the SCC and I cannot see VB making the same mistake. Their location makes it a lot easier to get to highway 218 which gets them to most of the schools in the conference. Heck Keo to Clark would be about 125 miles, long trip for basketball on a Tuesday night.

 

[Gunnerclone]

DCG and Norwalk will go straight to CIML soon. They are already competitive with CIML in most sports.

Agree. That will go a long way to eliminating almost all travel for those schools. And no more random games against Sioux City schools.

 

[1SEIACLONE]

The SCC is made up of county seat teams that outside of a couple schools don’t have a lot of open enrollment ins. That is what Van Buren is. They compete against mostly 1

greatest moment at state boys track meet involved A cardinal runner. Within 10 minutes in the 100 meter finals four state records set. One was an Adam’s kid from Cardinal.

Jeff also set the state record in the 200 meter finals in that meet, kid could fly, went to UNI on a track scholarship. He rushed for a little over 1700 yards as a senior in football, district offensive player of the year on a team that went 4-5. Coached and know him and his entire family well. His parents were involved with a lot of sports at Cardinal, Cindy his mom passed away quite young from brain cancer. Huge loss for the community.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

Agree. That will go a long way to eliminating almost all travel for those schools. And no more random games against Sioux City schools.

Man those Sioux City schools are so isolated at this point.

 

[Gunnerclone]

Man those Sioux City schools are so isolated at this point.

That’s an area where I feel like it would be fine to mix schools from different classes. I don’t remember any Sioux City school being good in any sports since Kirk Hinrich.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

That’s an area where I feel like it would be fine to mix schools from different classes. I don’t remember any Sioux City school being good in any sports since Kirk Hinrich.

That whole western 1/3 of the state is in a really tough spot as far as current school sizes go. A lot of these districts are going to need to consolidate again and from a mileage standpoint these districts are getting huge.

 

[1SEIACLONE]

That whole western 1/3 of the state is in a really tough spot as far as current school sizes go. A lot of these districts are going to need to consolidate again and from a mileage standpoint these districts are getting huge.

The state also needs to find a way to kick in money for these districts to build new centrally located schools, instead of spreading them out in all the different towns, which kills them with busing costs.
Van Buren is going through this now, the HS/MS is in Keo, but they have an elementary in Douds and one at the old Harmony HS building. Currently spending 500/600K a year on busing. The Supt. wants to close both elementary buildings and build a new elementary in Keo, but at $29 million for the project no way will it pass. It might if the state would give these districts money to reform and reorganize, letting the voters pick up the rest of the tab, it would save money in the long run.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

The state also needs to find a way to kick in money for these districts to build new centrally located schools, instead of spreading them out in all the different towns, which kills them with busing costs.
Van Buren is going through this now, the HS/MS is in Keo, but they have an elementary in Douds and one at the old Harmony HS building. Currently spending 500/600K a year on busing. The Supt. wants to close both elementary buildings and build a new elementary in Keo, but at $29 million for the project no way will it pass. It might if the state would give these districts money to reform and reorganize, letting the voters pick up the rest of the tab, it would save money in the long run.

The state investing in public education? There's an idea!!!

 

[Gunnerclone]

The state investing in public education? There's an idea!!!

Big surplus in Iowa that Pubes are very proud of! bring in some east coast consultants to sort that out…

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

The state also needs to find a way to kick in money for these districts to build new centrally located schools, instead of spreading them out in all the different towns, which kills them with busing costs.
Van Buren is going through this now, the HS/MS is in Keo, but they have an elementary in Douds and one at the old Harmony HS building. Currently spending 500/600K a year on busing. The Supt. wants to close both elementary buildings and build a new elementary in Keo, but at $29 million for the project no way will it pass. It might if the state would give these districts money to reform and reorganize, letting the voters pick up the rest of the tab, it would save money in the long run.

Honestly the biggest hang up with building centrally located schools is that none of the towns are willing to concede their schools or athletic facilities. A lot of school board members in these areas have zero grasp on reality as far as their communities go.

 

[ISUTex]

Albia 279, Chariton 293, Centerville 301, Clarke 311 plus knoxville is getting smaller. Also a member before Cardinal chose to join.

No one has ever said ‘****, we’re playing Knoxville. We can’t possibly win.’

Cardinal probably says that.

 

[cycub51]

The state also needs to find a way to kick in money for these districts to build new centrally located schools, instead of spreading them out in all the different towns, which kills them with busing costs.
Van Buren is going through this now, the HS/MS is in Keo, but they have an elementary in Douds and one at the old Harmony HS building. Currently spending 500/600K a year on busing. The Supt. wants to close both elementary buildings and build a new elementary in Keo, but at $29 million for the project no way will it pass. It might if the state would give these districts money to reform and reorganize, letting the voters pick up the rest of the tab, it would save money in the long run.

Bonds like these are really hard to pass when closing schools in towns to build in the larger community.

Our district wanted a bond to renovate the elementary school and build a new gym because the old gym is falling apart and doesn’t even have hot water.

It failed in part because people in one of the smaller communities in the district are still upset that their town of 150-200 doesn’t have any of the buildings there.

 

[ISUTex]

Research for what? Norwalk is in the Little Hawkeye conference with Osky/Pella/etc. and is also geographically closer to Knoxville than most of the other SCC schools. I guess you mean that Norwalk is good? Ok, I guess, Knoxville still belongs in that conference more than with Eddyville/Cardinal/Davis County.

they meant that Norwalk has the potential to become the next fast growing suburb that will shoot up to 5A football. Knoxville, not so much.

 

[Kinch]

Knoxville left LHC in 2014 because they got their ass kicked in all sports. Norwalk/DCG/Indianola are more than double their size.

They belong in SCC who voted to accept them in 2014.

And Knoxville was a member of the original SCC back in the 70s. Now that was a good conference.