2018 – 2019 School Board Members Pictured
Back Row (I to r): Arvin DeBoef, Dirk Wilkin and Keith Foster
Front Row (I to r): Margaret Ratcliff and Sherrill Strobel
Role of School Board Members
Board members are locally elected, non-salaried public officials entrusted with the task of providing the direction for the education of students across Iowa. The board of education has made public schools flexible and responsive to local community needs. Today, public schools are being asked to raise their bar of academic achievement, while remaining good stewards of the public’s investment in education.
Iowa school board members represent a continuing commitment to local citizen decision making in public education. Each month, they donate their personal time in service to Iowa student.
K-12 School Boards
Iowa has 330 school districts with five or seven-member school boards. School board members are elected by their local communities in an election held on the first Tuesday of November on odd-numbered years. They may be elected at large or from director districts and serve four-year terms.
K-12 Public School Board Data
Board seats in Iowa…………………………….1,875
Male board members………………………….61%
Female board members………………………39%
Five member boards……………………………218
Seven member boards…………………………112
Student enrollment 2017-18………………..486,264
Total general fund revenue 2017-18…….$5.9 billion
Thank you, board members, for your volunteered time and making North Mahaska CSD a great place!