Bettendorf High School

Bettendorf High School is a big senior high in Bettendorf, Iowa, part of Bettendorf Comm School District. The school works with 1,433 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 468 students each, so Bettendorf High School sits 206% bigger than that benchmark.

Bettendorf Comm School District runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 4,257 students. Bettendorf High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Bettendorf High School lists that White students make up the majority at 69%. The remainder looks like 12% Hispanic, 8% Black, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 93 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 29% of students at Bettendorf High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Scott County (around 38%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Bettendorf High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 77.3%, the actual is 77.3%, a residual of +0.0 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Scott County) records that median household income runs about $78,277, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Scott County runs 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,100 students), of which Bettendorf High School is one.

The closest other public school is Herbert Hoover Elementary School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bettendorf High School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bettendorf High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 75.5%.

Bettendorf High School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bettendorf High School has ticked down 5%, going from 1,503 students in 2018 to 1,433 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 78% to 69% across the same window.

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