The Raccoon River Conference is a nine team high school athletic league in central Iowa . Made up of mid-sized school districts located mostly west of Des Moines , all schools in the conference are currently 3A schools, the second largest class of schools in Iowa.
12-408: • * Indicates that school is no longer operating The Raccoon River Conference was once a small school conference. The conference was made up of Bondurant–Farrar, Norwalk, Madrid, Woodward-Granger, Interstate 35 in Truro, Waukee, Dallas Center-Grimes, and Adel–De Soto at it outset. While the outer regions of the Des Moines metro began to experience growth, Bondurant–Farrar and Ogden decided to leave for
24-642: The Corner Conference in 1986. Anita and Cumberland-Massena merged to become CAM in 1989. Shelby-Tennant left when they merged with AvoHa of Avoca in 1991. Bridgewater–Fontanelle did likewise when they merged with Greenfield in 1993. In 2004, Earlham, who had joined the conference in the late 1990s, left the league to join the West Central Activities Conference , a league covering similar territory that contains larger 1A and smaller 2A schools. Ankeny Christian Academy joined
36-676: The 2011–12 school year. Grandview Park Baptist left the Heart of Iowa Conference before the softball season to go to Rolling Hills Conference . Saydel joined the conference beginning in the fall of the 2012–13 school year. In 2015, Colfax–Mingo left for the South Iowa Cedar League . In 2017–18 season, Collins-Maxwell & Baxter split up their sharing agreement and both schools went to the Iowa Star Conference. In 2018, both Gilbert and North Polk agreed to leave
48-607: The 2025-26 school year. Rolling Hills Conference (Iowa) The Rolling Hills Conference was a small-school high school athletic conference in west central Iowa. All of the schools in the conference competed in Class 1A, the smallest in the state. The Rolling Hills Conference was organized in the late 1970s. Original members were Walnut, Elk Horn–Kimballton, Anita, Cumberland-Massena, Bridgewater–Fontanelle, Adair–Casey, Orient-Macksburg, and Exira. They were soon joined by Shelby-Tennant and Carson-Macedonia. Carson-Macedonia left for
60-658: The HOIC for the Raccoon River Conference in the 2020–21 school year. In 2021, Perry left the Raccoon River Conference to become the 8th member of the Heart of Iowa Conference. In 2023, Grand View Christian was admitted to the conference for the 2024-25 school year, despite being voted down by conference members in 2020, by the Iowa Board of Education. In March 2024, the conference extended an official invitation to Boone , which would be effective for
72-490: The West Central Conference and Nevada re-joined the league from the Raccoon River Conference. In the 2010 season, Colo–NESCO jumped to Iowa Star Conference in every sport except sharing with CMB in soccer. Ogden left the conference in 2011, in order to join former conference foes Woodward-Granger and Madrid in the West Central Conference. Bondurant-Farrar made the jump to Raccoon River Conference starting in
84-661: The conference in 1997, following the demise of the Des Moines River Conference. Pleasantville then left the league in 2001, and North Polk rejoined. In 2006, Prairie City-Monroe joined the league from the South Central Conference . In 2007, Madrid left for the West Central Conference and was replaced by former Raccoon River Conference member Jefferson-Scranton. In 2008, West Marshall left for the NICL . The 2009 season saw Woodward-Granger jump to
96-569: The conference in 2005. The school had only recently started its athletic program and the Rolling Hills was its first conference. In 2007, Paton-Churdan, the smallest school in the West Central Activities Conference, became a member of the Rolling Hills, and in 2009 Glidden-Ralston followed them there. In 2010, East Greene became the third West Central Activities Conference school to jump to the Rolling Hills in
108-536: The league's founding members, left for the Little Hawkeye Conference in 2013. Gilbert and North Polk both joined for the 2020–21 school year. They left their former conference, the Heart of Iowa Conference . Heart of Iowa Conference The Heart of Iowa Conference is a high school athletic conference in central Iowa that dates back to the 1970s. Members are a mixture between 3A and 2A,
120-399: The next two years, North Polk, Prairie City-Monroe, Waukee, and W.C. Valley all joined different conferences, leaving the league with ten teams. In 2007, Jefferson–Scranton left for the Heart of Iowa Conference. Nevada followed them there in 2009, the same year Boone joined the league. Bondurant–Farrar joined the Raccoon River Conference in the 2011–12 school year. Dallas Center-Grimes, one of
132-786: The second- and third-largest classes. The conference was formed in 1966 by Ballard , Nevada , South Hamilton ,Perry Community School and West Marshall after the disbanding of the Hawkeye Central Conference. In 1967, Carlisle , Johnston and North Polk joined, and in 1970, Roland–Story joined from the West Central Conference . As of 1992, the league had 10 schools in it. Bondurant–Farrar , Collins–Maxwell–Baxter, Colo–NESCO , Gilbert , Madrid , Ogden , and Woodward-Granger had joined, while Carlisle, Johnston, Nevada, and North Polk had departed. Colfax–Mingo and Pleasantville were added to
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#1732801394312144-612: The smaller Heart of Iowa Conference , while I-35 joined the Pride of Iowa Conference . Woodward-Granger soon followed their former members to the HOI conference. This flurry of change saw the league reform itself. By 1998, there were 14 members in the conference, competing in two divisions. The league now consisted of A-D-M, Ballard, Carlisle, Carroll, Dallas Center-Grimes, Jefferson–Scranton, Nevada, North Polk , Perry, Prairie City-Monroe , Saydel , Waukee , West Central Valley, and Winterset. Over
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