Scholarship ShortlistIowa counties

Wayne County, Iowa: 15 local scholarships and counting

We have found 15 scholarships limited to students in Wayne County, from 1 local sponsor. 12 of them are tied to a school district, so the high school your student attends matters here. We keep searching and add new local scholarships as we find them, so this number grows.

$9,700or more
in scholarships written only for students in or from Wayne County. That adds up the 7 of 15 scholarships that publish an amount, one winner each; the rest do not say. Some give more than one.
1
local sponsor, including 1 community foundation
4th
of Iowa's 99 counties for local scholarships, tied with others
32
more state scholarships and grants limited to Iowa students

3 big ones to start with

3 of the 15, picked for size and for a deadline you can plan around. The other 12, with every rule, deadline and what each one asks for, are on your student's board.

Haraldine Harbert Memorial Scholarship (Wayne Community Foundation)Deadline not posted yet · one school or district only
$4,000
3D Scholarship (Wayne Community Foundation)Deadline not posted yet · one school or district only
$1,200
George Bailey Memorial Scholarship (Wayne Community Foundation)Deadline not posted yet · one school or district only
$1,000
See the other 12 and which ones your student fits

Who gives in Wayne County

Each sponsor counted once, by kind. A community foundation often runs dozens of separate funds through one application, so it can be one sponsor with many scholarships.

Who gives locallySponsorsScholarships
Community foundations115
All local sponsors115

School districts with their own scholarships

4 school districts serving Wayne County have scholarships only their own students can apply for. The board asks which district your student is in and shows only theirs.

School districtScholarships
Wayne Community School District11
Seymour Community School District8
Mormon Trail Community School District6
Lineville-Clio Community School District1

When the deadlines fall

None of these have a posted date yet; many local sponsors publish the next round only a few weeks before it closes. Across the 1,788 local scholarships we track nationwide that do post a date, most fall in February and March. The time to get ready is the fall before.

How Wayne County compares

That is about 5 times as many as the typical Iowa county, which has 3, and ranks tied for 4th of Iowa's 99 counties. On top of the local list, Iowa students can look at 32 state scholarships and grants limited to the state but not to one county, and the national ones. Across Iowa we have found 195 local scholarships in 96 counties. See every Iowa county.

Counties next to Wayne County

5 of the 7 counties that border Wayne County have local scholarships in our catalog too. Some sponsors cover several counties, and a student who lives in one county and goes to school in another can sometimes apply on both sides.

Clarke County (3)Appanoose County (2)Decatur County (1)Mercer County, MO (1)Putnam County, MO (1)

What a public college in Iowa costs

A public four-year college in Iowa averaged $10,121 in tuition and fees and $10,426 for a dorm and meals in 2022-23, about $20,547 a year before any aid, less than the national public average of $22,389. That is the newest federal figure published for every state, so today's prices run higher. The homepage works out what is left after Iowa's own state aid for your student's grades and scores, college by college.

The other 12 are on the board.

Answer a few questions and see how many of the 12,000+ scholarships we track fit your student, local ones included. Their own board, with every name, rule and deadline, is $149 for the school year.

See which ones your student fits

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Questions families ask

Why only 3 here?

The full list, with each one's rules and deadlines, is the product. We read each one from the sponsor's own page and recheck it on a schedule, and that work is what the $149 board pays for. The 3 above show the list is real; the board shows which of the 15 your student fits.

Does every student in Wayne County fit all 15?

No. Most local scholarships add their own rules on top of where you live: one high school, a GPA floor, a planned major, a parent who is a member or a customer. The board asks about those once and shows the ones your student fits, with what each one still asks you to check.

How current is this?

Counted from our catalog on November 2, 2026. We add new local scholarships every week, so the numbers here usually go up.

Counts, amounts and deadline months come from each sponsor's own published rules and can change without notice. Totals add one winner of each scholarship; sponsors that do not publish an amount are not counted in the dollar total. A deadline month is from the most recent cycle we could find. College prices are estimates to plan with, not a quote. Confirm anything you act on with the sponsor or the college.