Alburnett Senior High School

Alburnett Senior High School is one of the small secondary schools in Alburnett, Iowa, part of Alburnett Comm School District, with 293 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 37% below the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 468 students.

Alburnett Comm School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 857 students; Alburnett Senior High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Alburnett Senior High School shows that nearly all students (95%) are White; the rest breaks down as 3% multiracial. By comparison, Linn County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. An estimated 8% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Linn County's rate of about 40%.

After controlling for student poverty, Alburnett Senior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 88.2%, the actual is 80.6%, a residual of -7.6 points.

Around the school, Linn County reports that median household income runs about $77,649, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Linn County runs 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,480 students), of which Alburnett Senior High School is one.

The closest other public school is Alburnett Elementary School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Alburnett Senior High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 80.4%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 46%: 201 students in 2018 compared to 293 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 9.1:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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