Education
The Iowa Department of Education collects and publishes a wide array of data about Iowa schools and students in spreadsheets available on its website. Common Good Iowa has created a series of interactive maps and charts from this data, which is here for you to explore.
You can can embed them in a website of your own, download the underlying data and share them on social media.
They are presented in the following categories:
Public-school enrollment
Data on statewide enrollment patterns and information on enrollment in individual school districts and counties
Open enrollment
Data on statewide public open-enrollment trends and for district-level data on open-enrollment usage
Private schools and enrollment
Statewide trend data on private-school enrollment levels and county-level data on the number of accredited private schools and private-school enrollment
Vouchers
County- and district-level data on the number of share of students using vouchers for private-school tuition
Race and ethnicity
A statewide breakdown of the racial makeup of Iowa's public-school students over time and for the share of students by race and ethnicity the school-district level
Free and reduced-price lunch
Trend data on free and reduced-price meal eligibility over time and for school-district level eligibility patterns
Latest update: September 2025