{"data":{"id":"us-ia/iowa-code-282.6","jurisdiction":"us-ia","citation":"Iowa Code § 282.6","heading":"Tuition.","body":"1. For purposes of this section, “resident” means a person who is physically present in a district, whose residence has not been established in another district by operation of law, and who meets any of the following conditions:\na. Is in the district for the purpose of making a home and not solely for school purposes.\nb. Meets the definitional requirements of the term “homeless individual” under 42 U.S.C. §11302(a) and (c).\nc. Lives in a residential correctional facility in the district.\n2. Every school shall be free of tuition to all actual residents between the ages of five and twenty-one years and to resident veterans as defined in section 35.1, as many months after becoming twenty-one years of age as they have spent in the armed forces of the United States before they became twenty-one, provided, however, fees may be charged covering instructional costs for a summer school or driver education program. The board of education may, in a hardship case, exempt a student from payment of the above fees. Every person, however, who shall attend any school after graduation from a four-year course in an approved high school or its equivalent shall be charged a sufficient tuition fee to cover the cost of the instruction received by the person.\n3. This section shall not apply to tuition authorized by chapter 260C.","path":["Title VII - EDUCATION, HISTORY, AND CULTURE (Ch. 256 - 305B)","Chapter 282 - SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AND TUITION"],"source_url":"https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/2026/282.6.pdf","current_through":"Iowa Code 2026 edition","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:40:07Z","sha256":"a8e0001c3556cc6bf4a651fd4c424be83dc3ba4748278cbe71bdfe34bfb5bab6","source_id":"us-ia","stale":false,"prev":"us-ia/iowa-code-282.5","next":"us-ia/iowa-code-282.7"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}