The Pipeline · Central (IA) Football

High Schools Feeding Central (IA) Football

128 players, 89 high schools, 11 states. The actual feeder map for Central (IA) football.

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128

Players On 2025 Roster

89

High Schools Represented

11

Home States Represented

Which high schools send the most players to Central (IA) football? Real numbers, not assumptions. Right now, 128 players sit on the Central (IA) football roster, sourced from 89 high schools across 11 states. Pella leads with 7 current players. Kyle Monangai went from Don Bosco Prep, overlooked by Power-4 programs, to Rutgers Big Ten captain to the 2025 Chicago Bears. His older brother Kevin walked the same kind of road first, Villanova to the Eagles and Vikings as a player, then the Giants as a coach. Kevin coached his own brother through this exact program; that is why we built RawRecruit. These counts come from the current 2025 Central (IA) football roster. Below: the high schools sending the most players, the state-by-state breakdown of where the recruiting net pulls hardest (Iowa leads at 68%), the methodology, and the questions parents ask us most.

“The families who aren't getting Power-4 offers. The kids and parents who want the actual roster in front of them before their kid puts a number on a coach's call sheet.

Kevin Monangai, Founder, RawRecruit

Former NFL running back (Eagles, Vikings)

Former NFL coach (Giants)

01

The Feeders

Top High Schools Feeding Central (IA) Football

  1. 01Pella
    7Players
  2. 02Grundy Center
    4Players
  3. 03Newton
    4Players
  4. 04Belle Plaine
    3Players
  5. 05Bondurant-Farrar
    3Players

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02

The Map

Where Central (IA) Football Pulls From, By State

01

Iowa

87

68% Of Roster

02

Arizona

12

9% Of Roster

03

Illinois

11

9% Of Roster

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Real Outcome

One Brother, Out Of That List

The roster above is not theoretical. Kevin's younger brother Kyle ran the same kind of road out of Don Bosco Prep, walked into Rutgers, captained a Big Ten roster, and got drafted in the seventh round of the 2025 NFL Draft.

  1. 01

    Don Bosco Prep

    Overlooked by Power-4

  2. 02

    Rutgers

    Big Ten captain

  3. 03

    2025 NFL Draft

    Round 7, Pick #233

  4. 04

    Chicago Bears

    Active roster

04

The Methodology

How We Count

Numbers come from the publicly available 2025 Central (IA) football roster. We count down to the per-school, per-year level. The decision a family makes here is too big to plan around guesses, so we put the rosters in front of you.

05

The Conversation

Parents Ask Us

Q.01
Which high schools send the most players to Central (IA) football?
Pella leads with 7 current players, followed by Grundy Center (4), Newton (4), Belle Plaine (3), Bondurant-Farrar (3). The full top 25 is on the page above.
Q.02
How many players are on the Central (IA) football roster?
128 players, sourced from 89 high schools across 11 states. Counts come from the current 2025 roster.
Q.03
Which states feed the most players to Central (IA) football?
Iowa leads at 68% of the roster (87 players), then Arizona at 9% (12) and Illinois at 9% (11). The top three are above; ranks 4 through 10 unlock with a free account.
Q.04
How does RawRecruit count high school feeders into Central (IA) football?
We pull the current 2025 Central (IA) football roster from public school athletics sites and count each player against the home state and high school listed on the roster line.
Q.05
Is Central (IA) football a realistic target for an out-of-state player?
Yes. With 11 different home states on the current roster, the program recruits nationally. For an out-of-state kid, position fit and academic admission carry as much weight as where you live.
Q.06
What does my kid actually do with this list of feeder high schools?
The list is the input. The seven-step playbook is the action. Profile your kid's real numbers, build a target list off the schools above, send the email coaches actually read, and run the visit on full information. The full playbook lives at /guides/football/diy-recruiting and was written by Kevin from the same road he walked his brother Kyle through.
Q.07
Why does Central (IA) football recruit nationally instead of mostly from one state?
Because the talent pool a roster of this size needs is wider than any single state can fill. The home-state breakdown above shows where the recruiting net pulls hardest; the program rounds out depth by recruiting nationally.
Q.08
How is this list different from the one on Central (IA)'s official roster page?
The official athletics page lists the current roster with names, positions, and class years. We pull from that public source, then resolve and clean the home-state and high-school strings so the feeder map adds up at the state and HS level. We also strip scrape artifacts (bracket escapes, junk sentinels) so the high schools are countable.
Q.09
Why is RawRecruit giving away the rosters and coach contacts for free?
Because the data is the easy part. The hard part is keeping a school list current, filtering programs by your kid's real fit, and tracking coach records as staffs turn over every cycle. The free profile saves the work; the paid tiers exist for families who want deeper fit analytics. The free profile is enough for most.

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