ADM Senior High School

Set in Adel, Iowa, ADM Senior High School is a mid-tier senior high, one of the schools within Adel DeSoto Minburn Comm School District. It instructs 666 students across grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 468 students per school, that is 42% larger than typical.

Adel DeSoto Minburn Comm School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,278 students. ADM Senior High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, ADM Senior High School shows that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, ADM Senior High School shows 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting ADM Senior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 19% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, ADM Senior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 82.3%, the actual is 90.1%, a residual of +7.8 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Dallas County) records that the typical household earns roughly $102,379 per year, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. ADM Senior High School is one of 41 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 22,938 students).

Nearest neighbor: ADM Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ADM Senior High School at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 85.8%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 33%: 501 students in 2018 compared to 666 in 2025.

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