Belle Plaine Jr/Sr High School

Belle Plaine Jr/Sr High School is one of the low-enrollment 9-12 campuss in Belle Plaine, Iowa, run under Belle Plaine Comm School District, with 205 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 56% smaller than the state mean of about 468.

Within Belle Plaine Comm School District, which oversees 2 schools and 472 students, Belle Plaine Jr/Sr High School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Belle Plaine Jr/Sr High School lists that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 39% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Belle Plaine Jr/Sr High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 72.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 69.6%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Benton County put median household income runs about $86,962, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Benton County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,919 students), Belle Plaine Jr/Sr High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Longfellow Elementary School, around 0.4 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Belle Plaine Jr/Sr High School at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 75.1%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 21%: 261 students in 2018 compared to 205 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

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