According to Lou Bezjak's article in The State from 11/20/19:

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The realignment committee decided the biggest changes will be in Class A, the smallest classification, and 5A, the biggest classification.

Currently, there are 38 Class A schools but only 29 of them have football. In the next realignment, there will be a base of 50 schools with the flexibility to move plus-or-minus four schools giving it between 46-54 schools.

Having more Class A schools would probably eliminate some of the issues that happened in the football playoffs in which a winless team Hemingway hosted a playoff game or one-win teams made the playoffs.

In Class 5A there are 48 schools, but in the next realignment there will be a base of 36 with a plus-or-minus of four schools, meaning there could be as few as 32 schools or as many as 40 in 5A.

Once Class A and 5A are established, the remaining schools will be divided equally among Class 2A, 3A and 4A with the flexibility to move plus-or-minus four schools as it pertains to that classification.