The district encompasses the villages of Cobb, Linden, Livingston, Montfort, Rewey, the town of Mifflin, and the unincorporated communities of Edmund, and Arthur.
The elementary and middle school are in the same building, which was built in 1991.
Across from the current campus is a renovated historical one-room schoolhouse known as Hazel Dell.
Prior to the creation of SWAL Iowa-Grant was in the Southern 8 conference.
Each year the Iowa-Grant football team plays Fennimore for the "milk can", because both communities have cheese factories.