Baxter High School

Set in Baxter, Iowa, Baxter High School is a low-enrollment high school, one of the schools within Baxter Comm School District. It instructs 262 students across grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 468 students each, so Baxter High School sits 44% leaner than that benchmark.

Baxter Comm School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 471 students; Baxter High School is among them.

Demographically, Baxter High School reports that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Jasper County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Around 33% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Baxter High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 75.5%; this one delivers 72.7%.

In the area at large, Jasper County reports that median household income runs about $71,311, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Jasper County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,668 students), Baxter High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Baxter Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 4 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Baxter High School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 71.5%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 15%: 227 students in 2018 compared to 262 in 2025.

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