Going through the state website, there's kind of a mish-mash of information regarding soccer classing this year.
Most of the information appears to not yet be updated. But there is updated CBEDS data for the super set of schools for the 21/22 school year, on the master classification page (not soccer specific)
The soccer page says that schools are classed 3A - Biggest 48, 2A next 48 and 1A the rest. However, if you look at last year's soccer classification list the first 48 were in 3A, the next 56 were in 2A. The substate last year also had 56 in 2A, so I think that's valid.
So, if you take the new CBEDS data, put together the same coops as last year, and drop our the schools without programs (there are a few in the 2A range) you end up with a few interesting re-classifications.
- Solon jumps way up from 1A to the 34th spot in 2A (so regardless if the cutoff is 48 or 56, it looks like they'll be 2A)
- MOC-Floyd Valley comes up into 2A
- And the biggest news would be Notre Dame/West Burlington becomes the 100th biggest school - If the state really does cutoff at 96, they'[ll remain in 1A - If they follow what they appear to have done last year and include 56 in 3A, they would be number 52 of those 56
The 2021 Soccer Classification page says it was last updated April 15, 2021, so I take it that the classification list is still subject to change for the upcoming season. So, I wonder what the state will do, conform to what they said the breakpoint would be, or follow the practice of what they did last year. I'm guessing that something, namely the statement of the break points, didn't get updated when they changed the practice.