It’s a ton of numbers crunching, and fortunately, somebody else crunched them for us.
The Gazette received a spreadsheet, created by the Iowa High School Athletic Association, on how free and reduced lunch would have impacted football classification on the most recent cycle (the 2021 and 2022 seasons).
The IHSAA recently announced that it has approved a recommendation from the IHSAA classification committee to adopt a model similar to one currently used by the Minnesota State High School League.
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The Minnesota system calls for the reduction of a school’s free and reduced lunch count from the annual enrollment to determine a final classification model.
In essence, a district’s BEDS enrollment (grades 9-11 from the previous school year) will be lowered by 40 percent for each student receiving aid for school meals.
This spreadsheet does not include FRL for private schools, which do have the opportunity to submit those numbers to the Iowa Department of Education.
Adjustments were as follows:
Iowa City Liberty and Indianola would have moved up to 5A; Des Moines North and Sioux City West would have moved down to 4A.
North Polk, Adel ADM, Gilbert and Carroll would have moved up to 4A; Glenwood, Webster City, Winterset and Perry would have moved down to 3A.
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Dubuque Wahlert, Clear Lake and Iowa Falls-Alden would have moved up to 3A; Atlantic, Hampton-Dumont/CAL and Saydel would have moved down to 2A.
Here’s where the lack of private schools’ noted FRL really takes hold, so this should be taken with a grain of salt.
Private schools Carroll Kuemper, Western Christian, Waterloo Columbus would have moved up to 2A, along with Treynor. Camanche, Osage, Clarion CGD, Shenandoah and Pocahontas Area would have moved down to 1A.
Class A state champion Grundy Center would have moved up to 1A along with Hinton, Missouri Valley and Alburnett; Van Buren County, South Hardin, West Monona and Central Decatur would have been in Class A.
The enrollment of 20 schools would have been low enough for eligibility to move from Class A to 8-Player, though that boundary number may have adjusted with it.
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The Gazette received a spreadsheet, created by the Iowa High School Athletic Association, on how free and reduced lunch would have impacted football classification on the most recent cycle (the 2021 and 2022 seasons).
The IHSAA recently announced that it has approved a recommendation from the IHSAA classification committee to adopt a model similar to one currently used by the Minnesota State High School League.
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The Minnesota system calls for the reduction of a school’s free and reduced lunch count from the annual enrollment to determine a final classification model.
In essence, a district’s BEDS enrollment (grades 9-11 from the previous school year) will be lowered by 40 percent for each student receiving aid for school meals.
This spreadsheet does not include FRL for private schools, which do have the opportunity to submit those numbers to the Iowa Department of Education.
Adjustments were as follows:
The 4A/5A line
Iowa City Liberty and Indianola would have moved up to 5A; Des Moines North and Sioux City West would have moved down to 4A.
The 3A/4A line
North Polk, Adel ADM, Gilbert and Carroll would have moved up to 4A; Glenwood, Webster City, Winterset and Perry would have moved down to 3A.
The 2A/3A line
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Dubuque Wahlert, Clear Lake and Iowa Falls-Alden would have moved up to 3A; Atlantic, Hampton-Dumont/CAL and Saydel would have moved down to 2A.
The 1A/2A line
Here’s where the lack of private schools’ noted FRL really takes hold, so this should be taken with a grain of salt.
Private schools Carroll Kuemper, Western Christian, Waterloo Columbus would have moved up to 2A, along with Treynor. Camanche, Osage, Clarion CGD, Shenandoah and Pocahontas Area would have moved down to 1A.
The A/1A line
Class A state champion Grundy Center would have moved up to 1A along with Hinton, Missouri Valley and Alburnett; Van Buren County, South Hardin, West Monona and Central Decatur would have been in Class A.
The 8-Player/Class A line
The enrollment of 20 schools would have been low enough for eligibility to move from Class A to 8-Player, though that boundary number may have adjusted with it.
How FRL would have altered football classification in 2021, 2022
Prep football: How free and reduced lunch would have altered classification in 2021 and 2022.
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