Akron Westfield Senior High School

Akron Westfield Senior High School, an intimate high school in Akron, Iowa, run under Akron Westfield Comm School District, works with 188 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 60% leaner than the state mean of about 468.

Within Akron Westfield Comm School District, which oversees 3 schools and 576 students, Akron Westfield Senior High School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Akron Westfield Senior High School lists that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.2:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 19% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Plymouth County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Akron Westfield Senior High School is in the bottom 10% of Iowa public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 82.6%; Akron Westfield Senior High School posts 71.7%, -11.0 points below that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Plymouth County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,251 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Plymouth County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,219 students), Akron Westfield Senior High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Akron Westfield Elementary School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Akron Westfield Senior High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 68.0%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 21%: 156 students in 2018 compared to 188 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 8.2:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.