The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union released the third Iowa High School Softball Rankings for 2026 on Wednesday, June 10th.
Class 5A
| Rank | School | Record | LW |
| 1 | Waukee Northwest | 12-1 | 1 |
| 2 | Ankeny Centennial | 12-1 | 2 |
| 3 | West Des Moines Valley | 10-3 | 4 |
| 4 | Southeast Polk | 6-5 | 5 |
| 5 | Dallas Center-Grimes | 8-2 | 6 |
| 6 | Pleasant Valley | 6-3 | 3 |
| 7 | Cedar Rapids Kennedy | 9-5 | 8 |
| 8 | Muscatine | 6-1 | 9 |
| 9 | Linn-Mar | 7-3 | 7 |
| 10 | Cedar Rapids Prairie | 10-2 | NR |
| 11 | Bettendorf | 14-4 | 10 |
| 12 | Dowling Catholic | 4-6 | 12 |
| 13 | Waukee | 8-3 | NR |
| 14 | Des Moines Roosevelt | 10-3 | NR |
| 15 | Cedar Falls | 10-5 | 15 |
Dropped Out: Ottumwa (11), Johnston (13), Dubuque Hempstead (14)
Class 4A
| Rank | School | Record | LW |
| 1 | Carlisle | 14-1 | 2 |
| 2 | ADM | 7-2 | 1 |
| 3 | Fort Dodge | 11-2 | 3 |
| 4 | Western Dubuque | 12-1 | 4 |
| 5 | Clear Creek-Amana | 11-2 | 5 |
| 6 | Cedar Rapids Xavier | 10-4 | 6 |
| 7 | North Polk | 5-7 | 9 |
| 8 | North Scott | 3-8 | 7 |
| 9 | Winterset | 8-5 | 12 |
| 10 | Sioux City Bishop Heelan | 11-4 | 15 |
| 11 | Pella | 5-7 | 10 |
| 12 | Norwalk | 9-7 | 8 |
| 13 | Gilbert | 5-4 | 11 |
| 14 | Sergeant Bluff-Luton | 18-2 | NR |
| 15 | Spencer | 11-0 | NR |
Dropped Out: Solon (13), Ballard (14)
Class 3A
| Rank | School | Record | LW |
| 1 | Williamsburg | 12-0 | 1 |
| 2 | Dubuque Wahlert | 9-3 | 2 |
| 3 | Albia | 12-0 | 3 |
| 4 | Mount Vernon | 14-1 | 4 |
| 5 | Van Meter | 9-3 | 5 |
| 6 | West Liberty | 7-2 | 6 |
| 7 | PCM | 8-2 | 8 |
| 8 | West Delaware | 6-3 | 7 |
| 9 | Center Point-Urbana | 5-8 | 10 |
| 10 | Davenport Assumption | 11-3 | 9 |
| 11 | Atlantic | 12-2 | 12 |
| 12 | Osage | 9-2 | 11 |
| 13 | Clear Lake | 12-1 | 15 |
| 14 | Des Moines Christian | 7-3 | 13 |
| 15 | Charles City | 11-3 | NR |
Dropped Out: Mid-Prairie (14)
Class 2A
| Rank | School | Record | LW |
| 1 | Louisa-Muscatine | 12-1 | 1 |
| 2 | Interstate 35 | 9-3 | 11 |
| 3 | West Lyon | 6-3 | 2 |
| 4 | Missouri Valley | 12-1 | 13 |
| 5 | Logan-Magnolia | 9-1 | 3 |
| 6 | Grand View Christian | 10-1 | 12 |
| 7 | Wapsie Valley | 5-4 | 4 |
| 8 | East Marshall | 7-2 | 5 |
| 9 | Durant | 7-7 | 6 |
| 10 | Riverside | 5-4 | 7 |
| 11 | Pleasantville | 6-5 | 8 |
| 12 | West Marshall | 8-4 | 9 |
| 13 | Iowa City Regina | 8-4 | 14 |
| 14 | Lisbon | 9-6 | 10 |
| 15 | Hinton | 8-3 | NR |
Dropped Out: Sumner-Fredericksburg (15)
Class 1A
| Rank | School | Record | LW |
| 1 | Clarksville | 9-1 | 1 |
| 2 | Newman Catholic | 10-1 | 3 |
| 3 | West Monona | 11-1 | 2 |
| 4 | Exira-EHK/Audubon | 6-2 | 4 |
| 5 | Fort Dodge St. Edmond | 10-1 | 6 |
| 6 | Edgewood-Colesburg | 11-2 | 5 |
| 7 | Newell-Fonda | 10-2 | 7 |
| 8 | Highland | 5-2 | 8 |
| 9 | North Linn | 13-3 | 11 |
| 10 | Wayne | 9-1 | 13 |
| 11 | Remsen St. Mary’s | 8-2 | 15 |
| 12 | Martensdale St. Marys | 5-3 | 9 |
| 13 | North Butler | 10-2 | NR |
| 14 | Fremont-Mills | 7-1 | NR |
| 15 | Southeast Warren | 4-3 | 10 |
Dropped Out: Collins-Maxwell (12), North Union (14)
