Iowa Code §280.32 (the Gail Orcutt School Radon Safety Act, HF 2412) gives every Iowa public school district until July 1, 2027 to test every attendance center for radon and publish the results on the district's own site. That's less than two years out, and per Iowa Public Radio's most recent reporting, most districts still haven't met it.
Iowa Public Radio's River to River, citing an investigation by The Midwest Newsroom, reported that fewer than half of Iowa's roughly 350 public school districts have met the §280.32 testing requirement — with the July 1, 2027 deadline now under two years away. A separate, earlier count from the same investigation found that of the districts that had tested as of October 2025, only 81 of 151 had actually published their results, despite the law requiring it.
Source: Iowa Public Radio, River to River, December 27, 2025. We haven't independently re-verified this count ourselves — it's their reporting, cited as such.
RadonScout pulled Iowa City Community School District's own published test results directly from the district's site: 21 individual room readings at or above the EPA action level of 4.0 pCi/L, across 10 buildings, from testing done in November 2025 and March 2026. The two highest first readings: Penn Elementary at 36.7 pCi/L and Tate High School at 34.0 pCi/L. On retest in March 2026, those rooms averaged 1.8 and 2.6.
Updated 2026-11-06: the district has posted retests (March 2026) and a second follow-up round (May 2026). In the May round, three rooms were still at or above 4.0 pCi/L (Northwest Middle School 10.4, Lemme Elementary 8.6 average, City High 5.1). Four more rooms were at or above 4.0 when retested in March 2026 and have no later posted result (South East Junior High 10.0, 5.4 and 4.0; Kirkwood Elementary 5.0). Building-by-building detail, with each retest, is on our main Iowa school radon page, linked below.
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