Boone High School

Boone High School is a sprawling secondary school in Boone, Iowa, one of the schools within Boone Comm School District. The school serves 704 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 468 students each, so Boone High School sits 50% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 4 schools in Boone Comm School District (1,955 students total), Boone High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Boone High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%); the rest is composed of 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 94%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Boone High School has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Around 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Boone High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.6%, the actual is 69.2%, a residual of -7.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Boone County indicate median household income runs about $83,531, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Boone High School is one of 15 public schools in Boone County (combined enrollment of about 3,735 students).

Franklin Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Boone High School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Boone High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 73.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Boone High School's enrollment has ticked up 11% since 2018, when it stood at 632 (now 704).

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