Raccoon River Conference

The Raccoon River Conference is a ten 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.

Raccoon River Conference School Locations
Raccoon River Conference
Raccoon River
Established1941?
AssociationIHSAA / IGHSAU
Members10
Sports fielded
  • 18
RegionCentral Iowa
Websitewww.raccoonriverconference.org

Current members
Institution Location Mascot Colors Affiliation 9–12 enrollment (2019–20)[1] Year they joined
ADM Adel Tigers     Public 498 1956–57
Ballard Huxley Bombers     Public 538 1988–89
Bondurant–Farrar Bondurant Bluejays     Public 526 2011–12
Boone Boone Toreadors     Public 657 2009–10
Carlisle Carlisle Wildcats     Public 627 1996–97
Carroll Carroll Tigers     Public 476 1994–95
Gilbert Gilbert Tigers     Public 446 2020–21
North Polk Alleman Comets     Public 421 2020–21
Perry Perry Bluejays     Public 627 1991–92
Winterset Winterset Huskies     Public 516 1998–99

Former members

• * Indicates that school is no longer operating

Institution Location Mascot Colors Left for
Dallas Center * Dallas Center Mustangs     Consolidated with Grimes to form Dallas Center-Grimes
Dallas Center-Grimes Grimes Mustangs     Little Hawkeye Conference
Dexfield* Redfield Blue Devils     consolidated with Stuart-Menlo to form West Central Valley
Earlham Earlham Cardinals     Little Eight Conference
Intersate 35 Truro Roadrunners     Pride of Iowa Conference
Greene County Jefferson Rams     Heart of Iowa Conference
Madrid Madrid Tigers     Central Valley Conference
Nevada Nevada Cubs     Heart of Iowa Conference
Norwalk Norwalk Warriors     Little Hawkeye Conference
North Polk County Alleman Comets     Heart of Iowa Conference
Ogden Ogden Bulldogs     Heart of Iowa Conference
Panora* Panora Bluejays     conoslidates with Linden to form Panora-Linden
Panora-Linden* Panora Hawks     Little Eight Conference
PCM Monroe Mustangs     South Central Conference
Redfield* Redfield Bulldogs     consolidated with Dexter to form Dexfield
Stuart* Stuart Dragons     Little Eight Conference
Saydel Des Moines Eagles     Heart of Iowa Conference
Waukee Waukee Warriors     Central Iowa Metro League
West Central Valley Stuart Wildcats     West Central Activities Conference
Woodward* Woodward Hawks     consolidated with Granger to form Woodward-Granger
Woodward-Granger Woodward Hawks     Heart of Iowa Conference

History

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 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 joined the Raccoon River Conference in the 2011–12 school year. Dallas Center-Grimes, one of 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.

References
  1. "Iowa High School Athletic Association BEDS Document" (PDF). Retrieved October 7, 2013.
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