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Iowa Code § 275.3 (2026)

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No new school district shall be planned by an area education agency board nor shall any proposal for creation or enlargement of any school district be approved by an area education agency board or submitted to electors unless there reside within the proposed limits of such district at least three hundred persons of school age who were enrolled in public schools in the preceding school year. Provided, however, that the director of the department of education shall have authority to grant permission to an area education agency board to approve the formation or enlargement of a school district containing a lower school enrollment than required in this section on the written request of such area education agency board if such request is accompanied by evidence tending to show that sparsity of population, natural barriers or other good reason makes it impracticable to meet the school enrollment requirement. [R60, §2105; C73, §1800, 1801; C97, §2794; SS15, §2794, 2794-a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §4143, 4161, 4173; C46, 50, §274.25, 275.3, 276.8, 276.20; C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §275.3] 85 Acts, ch 212, §21 Referred to in §275.1, 275.2, 275.9

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Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5 cases, 1953–2012 · leading case: Bd. of Directors of Pleasant Hill Indep. Sch. Dist. v. Bd. of Educ., 109 N.W.2d 218 (Iowa 1961).
Bd. of Directors of Pleasant Hill Indep. Sch. Dist. v. Bd. of Educ., 109 N.W.2d 218 (Iowa 1961). · cites it 6× “Code section 275.3 states, in part: “No new school district shall be planned * * * nor shall any proposal for the creation or enlargement of any school district be approved * * * unless there reside within the proposed limits of such district at least three hundred persons of…”
East Cent. Cmty. Sch. Dist. v. Mississippi Bend Area Educ. Agency, 813 N.W.2d 741 (Iowa 2012). · cites it 4× “In 1984, the legislature amended Iowa Code chapter 275 to require that “the plans shall also include suggested alternate plans that incorporate the school districts in the area education agency into reorganized districts that meet the enrollment standards specified in section…”
Hedrick Cmty. Sch. Dist. v. S. Prairie Area Educ. Agency 15, 433 N.W.2d 746 (Iowa 1988). · cites it 6× “See Iowa Code § 275.3 (1979). In developing the studies and surveys mandated by section 275.”
Liberty Consol. Sch. Dist. v. Schindler, 70 N.W.2d 544 (Iowa 1955). · cites it 2× “Section 275.3 provides that except with permission of the state superintendent of public instruction upon the written request of a county board no new district shall be planned unless there reside therein at least 300 persons of school age who were enrolled in public schools in…”
Smaha v. Simmons, 60 N.W.2d 100 (Iowa 1953). “This latter Act states in its title that it is an Act to amend sections 275.3, 275.4 and 275.10, Code, 1950, and to repeal section 4, chapter 150, Acts of the 52d G.”
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