Boyer Valley Middle/High School

Boyer Valley Middle/High School is a small four-year high school in Dunlap, Iowa, operated by Boyer Valley Comm School District. The school serves 219 students in grades 6 through 12. That puts it 53% smaller than the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 468 students.

Boyer Valley Comm School District runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 427 students. Boyer Valley Middle/High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Boyer Valley Middle/High School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Around 43% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Boyer Valley Middle/High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.5%, the actual is 77.0%, a residual of +6.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Harrison County put the typical household earns roughly $79,535 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Harrison County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,535 students), Boyer Valley Middle/High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Boyer Valley Elementary School, around 7.3 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Boyer Valley Middle/High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 75.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Boyer Valley Middle/High School has ticked down 7%, going from 235 students in 2018 to 219 in 2025.

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