Other schools in Iowa.
185 other schools across 56 districts. Browse every school, filter by name, or jump to a district below.
Free profiles carry key facts; the full 122-field record is a member product.
What the numbers say across Iowa.
Computed from this list's v2026.07 K12 Atlas records: school size, staffing ratios, grade spans, and sector mix. Facts, not scores.
students at the median other school; the middle half of schools enroll between 49 and 286 students.
Reported enrollment · v2026.07
students per teacher at the median other school reporting staffing.
Reported staffing · v2026.07
Most commonly reported grade spans in this list.
Reported grade spans · v2026.07
Public, public charter, and private records stay separate. Private schools without a comparable CCD level appear under the state's other-level directory.
Record mix · v2026.07
Concentration: the five most-represented districts account for 11.4% of this list (21 of 185 records); the five most-represented cities account for 23.2%.
Iowa other schools in 7 charts.
Drawn from the same v2026.07 records as the tables below. Free to reuse with a link to this page.
Districts with other schools.
Every district with at least one other-level record, sorted by record count. Cities counts the distinct reported cities among the district’s records here; Students sums reported enrollment for those same records. Linked districts open full school directories.
| Cedar Rapids Comm School District | 7 | 1 | 773 |
| Des Moines Independent Comm School District | 5 | 1 | 1,047 |
| Ankeny Comm School District | 3 | 1 | 2,295 |
| Davenport Comm School District | 3 | 1 | 450 |
| Fort Madison Comm School District | 3 | 1 | — |
| Waukee Comm School District | 3 | 1 | 1,641 |
| Waverly-shell Rock Comm School District | 3 | 1 | 31 |
| College Comm School District | 2 | 1 | 141 |
| Dubuque Comm School District | 2 | 1 | 362 |
| Iowa City Comm School District | 2 | 2 | 173 |
| Orient-macksburg Comm School District | 2 | 1 | 108 |
| Oskaloosa Comm School District | 2 | 1 | 151 |
| Ottumwa Comm School District | 2 | 1 | 790 |
| Postville Comm School District | 2 | 1 | 32 |
| Shenandoah Comm School District | 2 | 1 | 298 |
| Sioux City Comm School District | 2 | 1 | 159 |
| West Des Moines Comm School District | 2 | 1 | 707 |
| Agwsr Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 59 |
| Albia Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 63 |
| Ames Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 244 |
| Belmond-klemme Comm School District | 1 | 1 | — |
| Burlington Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 177 |
| Centerville Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 60 |
| Clayton Ridge Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 1,457 |
| Clear Creek Amana Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 118 |
| Council Bluffs Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 119 |
| Creston Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 142 |
| Decorah Community School District | 1 | 1 | 20 |
| Denver Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 60 |
| Gladbrook-reinbeck Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| Grinnell-newburg Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 213 |
| Horizon Science Academy Davenport | 1 | 1 | — |
| Howard-winneshiek Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 43 |
| Independence Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 46 |
| Interstate 35 Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 234 |
| Johnston Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 1,161 |
| Keokuk Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 80 |
| Madrid Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 23 |
| Meskwaki Settlement School | 1 | 1 | 294 |
| Mid-prairie Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 31 |
| Mount Pleasant Comm School District | 1 | 1 | — |
| Muscatine Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 261 |
| Newton Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 268 |
| Oelwein Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 175 |
| Opportunity Ed_des Moines | 1 | 1 | — |
| Pella Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 137 |
| Red Oak Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 51 |
| Sheldon Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 43 |
| Sidney Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Sioux Center Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 49 |
| South Page Comm School District | 1 | 1 | — |
| Southeast Polk Comm School District | 1 | 1 | — |
| Southeast Warren Comm School District | 1 | 1 | — |
| Storm Lake Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 122 |
| West Branch Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 15 |
| Williamsburg Comm School District | 1 | 1 | 5 |
District groups are record counts from v2026.07 K12 Atlas profiles, not evaluations.
Questions about Iowa other schools.
How many other schools are in Iowa?
K12 Atlas profiles 185 other schools in Iowa in release v2026.07, across 56 districts.
What is included under other school levels?
This group includes schools whose reported level does not fit the standard elementary, middle, or high-school buckets, including private-school records without a comparable level label.
How many students attend Iowa other schools?
41,491 students were enrolled across 185 other schools in the 2024 directory release.
How many districts and cities have other schools in Iowa?
The directory lists 56 districts and 97 cities with other-level school records.
What grades do Iowa other schools cover?
The most commonly reported grade spans are PK (40), PK–12 (27), M (18). Each row in the tables above lists its own reported span.
How do I browse all other schools in Iowa?
Type in the find box above the districts table to filter by district name. School profiles for this state are not published yet; free key facts appear on every profile as coverage grows.
Can I download the full list of Iowa other schools?
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Licensed access returns every Iowa school with all 122 documented fields, each tied to a source and vintage.