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

Des Moines, Iowa

Des Moines is the capital and the most populous city in the US state of Iowa. It is also the county seat of Polk County. A small portion of the city extends into Warren County. It was incorporated on September 22, 1851, as Fort Des Moines which was shortened to "Des Moines" in 1857...

, all schools in the conference are currently 3A schools, the second largest class of schools in Iowa.

Members

• A-D-M, Adel
  Adel-DeSoto-Minburn School District
  The Adel-DeSoto-Minburn School District is based in Adel, Iowa. The school district includes Adel-DeSoto-Minburn High School, also called ADM. Nile Kinnick, the 1939 Heisman Trophy winner, attended school in the district until his junior year, when his family moved to Omaha, Nebraska after his...
  
  
• Ballard, Huxley
  Ballard Community School District
  Ballard Community School District is a K-12 school district in Story County, Iowa. It includes the towns of Huxley, Slater, Cambridge and Kelley. The School mascot are The Bombers.-Enrollment:...
  
  
• Bondurant-Farrar
• Boone
  Boone High School
  Boone High School is a high school located in Boone, Iowa. The school's mascot is the Toreadors....
  
  
• Carlisle
• Carroll
• Dallas Center-Grimes
• Perry
• Saydel
  Saydel School District
  The Saydel Community School District is a school district located in the northeast area of Des Moines, Iowa. Within the district are four schools: two elementary schools, a middle school, and one high school. District offices are located in Des Moines....
  
  
• Winterset

History

The Raccoon River Conference was once a small school conference. The conference was made up of Bondurant-Farrar, Ogden, Woodward-Granger, Interstate 35 in Truro, Waukee, Dallas Center-Grimes, and Adel-DeSoto at it outset. While the outer regions of the Des Moines metro began to experience growth, Bondurant-Farrar and Ogden decided to leave for 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 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 will join the Raccoon River Conference effective the 2011-12 school year.

External links

• http://www.raccoonriverconference.org/g5-bin/client.cgi?G5genie=151