[2] The district includes the city of Mount Pleasant and the surrounding area, which has the municipalities of Rome, Salem, and Westwood,[3] and the census-designated place of Trenton,[4] along with rural area students.

In 2023 the district purchased sections of the shuttered Iowa Wesleyan University for a combined total of $1,250,000.

[5] These included some buildings on the main campus and the sports practice fields.

[7] John Henriksen, the superintendent, stated that the district could immediately use some of the facilities, now district-owned, for athletic purposes and not have to use municipal complexes.

[9] The Iowa Wesleyan facilities on the main campus that the district sought to acquire were: Old Main, the school's chapel, John Wesley Holland Student Union, Howe Student Activity Center, the PEO Memorial Building, Pioneer Hall, and the Ruble Arena.