Alta-Aurelia High School

Alta-Aurelia High School is a four-year high school of compact scale in Alta, Iowa, part of Alta-Aurelia Comm School District, serveing 221 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 53% smaller than the state mean of about 468.

Alta-Aurelia High School is one of 4 schools operated by Alta-Aurelia Comm School District, a district that serves 829 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Alta-Aurelia High School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%); the rest reads as 16% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Alta-Aurelia High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 34% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Buena Vista County (around 60%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Alta-Aurelia High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 74.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 67.5%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Buena Vista County put median household income runs about $71,719, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Buena Vista County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,691 students), of which Alta-Aurelia High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Alta Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Alta-Aurelia High School comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 54.7%.

Alta-Aurelia High School operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Alta-Aurelia High School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 218 (now 221).

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