Southeast Conference (Iowa)

The Southeast Conference, formerly known as the Southeast 7, is an athletic conference made up of five high schools in the southeast corner of Iowa. All of the current schools compete at the 3A level, the second-largest in Iowa.

History

This conference was once known as the Little Six Conference. In 1969 the high schools of Burlington, Bettendorf, Muscatine, and Assumption left the league for conferences that made more geographical sense.

Ottumwa High School and Keokuk High School, as the only remaining members, formed the Southeast 7 to meet their needs for a conference. The new league was made up of Keokuk High School, Ft. Madison High School, Mt. Pleasant High School, Fairfield High School, Oskaloosa High School, Ottumwa High School, and Washington High School. Oskaloosa left the conference after the 1983 baseball season to join the South Central Conference. Oskaloosa returned after the 1995-1996 School year after being asked to leave the South Central Conference due to enrollment numbers and after being denied membership into the Little Hawkeye Conference due to travel distance. After Ottumwa went to the CIML and Oskaloosa was accepted into the Little Hawkeye Conference in 1998, the conference changed its official name to the Southeast Conference.

The conference's schools have faced shrinking enrollment. Located in the southeast corner of the state, the cities with schools in the conference were some of the first cities settled in Iowa, but have seen their populations decline in the recent decades.

Current members

The members of the Southeast Conference.

School	Location	Mascot	2012-2013 9-11 Enrollment^[1]
Fairfield High School	Fairfield	Trojans	372
Fort Madison High School	Fort Madison	Bloodhounds	462
Keokuk High School	Keokuk	Chiefs	469
Mount Pleasant High School	Mount Pleasant	Panthers	475
Washington High School	Washington	Demons	396

References

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

Former members

Oskaloosa, 1969-1983 Left For South Central Conference, 1996-1998 Left for Little Hawkeye Conference
Ottumwa, ????-1998
Burlington, 1961-1969
Bettendorf, ????-1969
Muscatine, ????-1969
Davenport Assumption, 1963-1969

Southeast Conference (Iowa)

Fairfield Fort Madison Keokuk Mount Pleasant Washington

Iowa High School Athletic Conferences

Current Conferences	Bluegrass CIML Corn Bowl Corner Hawkeye Ten Heart of Iowa Iowa Star Lakes Little Hawkeye Maple Valley MAC Mississippi Valley Missouri River NICL North Central North Iowa NEIC Pride of Iowa Raccoon River River Valley Rolling Valley SEISC Siouxland South Central SICL Southeast Tri-Rivers Twin Lakes Upper Iowa WaMaC War Eagle West Central Western Iowa

Former Conferences	Big East Big Eight Boyer Valley Cornbelt Northwest Rolling Hills Sioux Valley Western Valley

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