List of school districts in Iowa

This is a list of school districts in Iowa, sorted by Area Education Agencies (AEA).

[7] An Iowa Department of Education consultant named Guy Ghan referred to the 1990s school district mergers as the "third wave".

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 Waterloo-Cedar Falls 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.

Iowa School Districts map. County boundaries in red and school district boundaries in black. Public school buildings are the dots.