Iowa Data Desk

Find the records behind a local education story. Start with a jurisdiction, inspect the reporting period and definitions, and download evidence you can check and cite. Coverage is source-specific. Missing or suppressed values are not zero, and similarly named measures are not necessarily comparable across states.

District / agency profiles
329
School profiles
1316
Coverage snapshot generated (not government release date)
2026-09-30T12:00:00.000Z
District experience
Does every district have a page built on the shared design, with its sources disclosed? 329 of 329 applicable districts covered; complete.
Finance detail
What did the district spend, broken down by function and line item? 329 of 329 applicable districts covered; complete.
Trends
How has a figure moved across years, on one consistent definition? 327 of 329 applicable districts covered; partial.
Comparisons
Can a district be put beside its peers on the same measure, year and scope? 329 of 329 applicable districts covered; complete.
Funding and taxes
Where does the money come from, and what does it cost a taxpayer? 329 of 329 applicable districts covered; complete.
Staffing
How many staff, in which roles, and what are they paid in aggregate? 325 of 329 applicable districts covered; partial.
Outcomes
Graduation, assessments and classroom measures. 329 of 329 applicable districts covered; complete.
Students
Enrollment, demographics and student groups. 329 of 329 applicable districts covered; complete.
Programs
What courses and pathways are taken, and by how many students? 0 of 329 applicable districts covered; not_collected.
Climate
Attendance and discipline. 329 of 329 applicable districts covered; complete.
Schools
Does each school have its own sourced profile, joined to its district? 329 of 329 applicable districts covered; complete.
Fiscal transparency
Fiscal health, reserves, budgets and the source documents themselves. 328 of 329 applicable districts covered; partial.
Distribution
Is every district and school page crawlable, linked and in the sitemap? 329 of 329 applicable districts covered; complete.
Why coverage is 90.7%
3,283 of 3,619 district-by-topic cells have a published figure; 0 are withheld by the agency and 336 are documented as not published.
Programs
0 of 329. Course and pathway participation (Advanced Placement, concurrent enrollment, career and technical education): 329 districts. None of the Iowa Department of Education files pinned for this release reports course or pathway participation (Advanced Placement, concurrent enrollment or career and technical education) by district, so none is shown. This describes the files used here, not the district.
Staffing
325 of 329. Full-time principals: 4 districts. Notes differ by district. One example: DE's 2025-26 full-time principal file has no row for this charter LEA, so no principal count or salary is shown. Superintendent (one position): shared; salary reported by Guthrie Center Comm School District: 4 districts. DE's 2025-26 superintendent file lists no superintendent contract for this charter LEA in either its full-time or part-time section, so no salary is shown; no other position is substituted.
Trends
327 of 329. Finance trend, FY2021-22 to FY2024-25: 2 districts. DE's Certified Annual Reports for FY2021-22 to FY2024-25 list this LEA only for FY2024-25 (NCES lists it as New in 2024-25), so there is no earlier year to show a trend.
Limitation
None of the Iowa Department of Education files pinned for this release reports course or pathway participation (Advanced Placement, concurrent enrollment or career and technical education) by district, so none is shown. This describes the files used here, not the district.
Limitation
Not applicable: DE reports no active high school students in this cohort for this district (its file leaves the cell blank; the district may send its high school students to another district).
Limitation
Not applicable: DE reports no grade 9-12 students for this district in 2024-25 (its file leaves the cell blank).
Limitation
Not applicable: DE reports no grade 7-12 students for this district in 2024-25 (its file leaves the cell blank).
Limitation
DE's 2024-25 bullying file leaves this LEA's row blank: "Districts with blank cells did not report data." No count is shown; it is not zero.
Limitation
Not computed: DE's 2024-25 certified enrollment file lists 0 certified students for this entity (it lists 72 served students, counted as open enrollment in).
Limitation
Not applicable: independent charter LEA. The Department of Management's school tax rate, Aid and Levy and valuation files list school districts only; none lists this LEA, which levies no school property tax of its own.
Limitation
DE's 2025-26 full-time principal file has no row for this charter LEA, so no principal count or salary is shown.
Reporting kits
No reporting kit download is offered for Iowa. Held from open data pending the source-terms audit, like Florida at launch: Iowa DE, DOM and ISPP were not in the 2026-09-29 terms-of-use audit. Each figure and its source remain on the district profiles.

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