Editing Mason City, Iowa (section)

===Primary and secondary schools===
[[Mason City Community School District]] operates the following schools:
Harding Elementary School,
Hoover Elementary School,
Jefferson Elementary School,
Roosevelt Elementary School,
Lincoln Intermediate School (5–6),
John Adams Junior High School (7–8),
[[Mason City High School (Mason City, IA)|Mason City High School]], (9–12),
Mason City Alternative High School,
Madison Early Childhood Center. Past schools include Lincoln, Washington, Grant, Central Heights, Central, McKinley, Wilson, Jackson, Monroe and Garfield elementary schools, and Monroe and Roosevelt junior high schools.

Newman Catholic Elementary/Middle School, [[Newman Catholic High School (Mason City, Iowa)|Newman Catholic High School]], and North Iowa Christian School. Mason City is also the home of the Worldwide College of Auctioning founded in 1933 by the well-known auctioneer Col. Joe Reisch and subsequently owned/operated for many years by Col. Gordon E. Taylor.