3A Schools Next Year

[PNation]

The BOEE released the BEDS numbers for public schools that will be used for classification next year, assuming that the current 3A schools stay 3A which I would say is a safe bet here is what I see being the 3A schools next year. In no particular order

Norwalk
DCG
Boone
Oskaloosa
Pella
Knoxville
Xavier
WSR
Decorah
Charles City
Storm Lake
Denison Schleswig
LeMars
Spirit Lake
Atlantic
Harlan
Glenwood
Mt Pleasant
Keokuk
Fort Madison
Fairfield
Washington
CCA
Assumption
South Tama
Grinnell
IFA
CPU
Chariton
North Polk
MOC Floyd Valley
Solon
Algona
Humboldt
Webster City
Vinton
Benton
West Delaware
Independence
SBL
Carroll
Perry
ADM
Bondurant Farrar
Marion
Central Dewitt
Maquoketa
Wahlert
Creston
Winterset
Ballard
Heelan
Spencer
Carlisle
Gilbert

Putting these on a google map and trying to make 8 team districts is not easy, 7 team districts is much easier to do, but there are still some teams in the corners of the state that are difficult to match up, Decorah especially, is not easy to match up with 7 other teams and make it so that there aren't massive road trips.

 

[Cyclone1968]

Can you provide a link? The document I am looking at has Solon in 2A if they take the top 48 in 4A like they have been talking about. If they go by the old standard of 700 then Solon is farther out of 3A by 3 more schools.

Here is the link I googled: http://ighsau.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/1516BedsNumbers.pdf
It says at the top it will be used for 2015-2016 sport classifications.

 

[PNation]

2015-16 is this year, so they are not used for next years classifications

https://www.educateiowa.gov/documen...2015-2016-iowa-public-school-district-prek-12

It has Solon at 323 in grades 9-11 this year (10-12 next year) class sizes of 112, 118, 93 I think the smallest 3A school is at like 315.

I am going by the top 48 which is kind of what they said would be used, Newton and Western Dubuque go up (although I will admit I don't know Western Dubuque's enrollment because there enrollment is combined with Cascade because it is the same school district).

 

[Cyclone1968]

My bad. Thanks for the clarification.

 

[makelovenotwar]

While I doubt this matters to the power-that-be, Western Dubuque and Solon both look like areas I would be expecting to see the schools trending up in terms of enrollment. I suspect the issue is BEDS enrollment on a given day, but if you want to minimize the bounding up and down over say the next decade, these schools are in areas with lots of housing going up.

 

[NeverReadTheTermsOfService]

What was the cutoff number for 3A at when you put everything together?

 

[EastIowaHawk]

Western Dubuque- Epworth (4A) and Western Dubuque- Cascade (2A) do not combine their enrollment for BEDS purposes for athletics. The division is administrative, as it is, I believe, the largest geographic school district in Iowa.