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Scattergood Friends School Photo - Scattergood offers a Sustainable Agriculture Endorsement. Students earning this endorsement take five farm-related Project classes over the course of four years, complete an agriculturally-related topic for either their Junior or Senior research papers and design and execute a 30-hour service project with with Scattergood Farm's livestock, 35 acre restored prairie, or 10 acre certified organic vegetable fields and fruit orchards.
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Best Iowa Private Schools Belonging to Membership Associations (2025-26)

For the 2025-26 school year, there are 189 private schools belonging to membership associations in Iowa.
The most popular school membership associations are National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) (50% of schools), Christian Schools International (CSI) (14% of schools) and Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) (8% of schools).

Top Ranked Iowa Private Schools by Membership Association (2025-26)

Membership Association
# Schools
# Students
% Minority
Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) or (School of Tomorrow)
4
482
12%
American Association of Christian Schools (AACS)
3
112
11%
American Montessori Society (AMS)
5
557
39%
Association Montessori International (AMI)
1
30
-
Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI)
15
3,514
18%
Association of Classical and Christian Schools (ACCS)
1
220
5%
Christian Schools International (CSI)
27
5,142
8%
Cognia
1
675
18%
Evangelical Lutheran Education Association (ELEA)
4
386
8%
Friends Council on Education (FCE)
1
39
16%
Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS)
6
1,006
46%
National Association for the Education of Young Children
14
2,306
32%
National Association of Episcopal Schools (NAES)
4
1,990
22%
National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS)
6
1,439
29%
National Association of Private Special Education Centers
3
164
32%
National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA)
94
25,883
17%
National Christian School Association (NCSA)
1
915
13%
National Lutheran Schools Accreditation
6
931
12%
National Middle School Association
1
173
11%
Other associations(s) for exceptional children
1
199
1%
Other Montessori association(s)
3
250
20%
Other religious school association(s)
7
1,148
6%
Other school association(s)
12
2,858
23%
Other special emphasis association(s)
4
460
29%
State or regional independent school association
7
1,744
10%
The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS)
2
256
7%

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