The West Central Conference is a high school athletic conference made up of 1A and 2A schools in West Central Iowa. Currently there are ten schools in the league.
Formerly an eight team league, the league consisted of Coon Rapids-Bayard, DM Christian, East Greene, Glidden-Ralston, Guthrie Center, Panorama, Paton-Churdan, and Van Meter. In 2000, West Central Valley joined the league from the Raccoon River Conference, a conference with much larger schools. In 2004, longtime Van Meter football rival Earlham joined the league as its tenth team. By 2007, many of the schools in the conference were starting to grow close to 2A in size, leading to Paton-Churdan leaving the conference for the smaller Rolling Hills Conference. Madrid joined the league at this time from the Heart of Iowa Conference. In 2009, Glidden-Ralston left for the Rolling Hills, being replaced by Woodward-Granger, another Heart of Iowa Conference team. East Greene has opted to also leave the conference and join the Rolling Hills, but on June 28, 2010, Ogden's bid to join the conference was approved, meaning another former Heart of Iowa Conference member will join the league in 2011. Woodward Academy is accepted only in boys from the Independents of Iowa High Schools.