Calamus-Wheatland Secondary Attendance Center

Located at 110 E Park Rd, in Wheatland, Iowa, Calamus-Wheatland Secondary Attendance Center is an one-room-style 9-12 campus that educates 182 students (grades 7 through 12), one of the schools within Calamus-Wheatland Comm School District. Enrollment runs roughly 61% leaner than the state mean of about 468.

Calamus-Wheatland Secondary Attendance Center is one of 2 schools operated by Calamus-Wheatland Comm School District, a district that hosts 418 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Calamus-Wheatland Secondary Attendance Center lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). The remainder comes out to 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Clinton County (around 42%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Calamus-Wheatland Secondary Attendance Center performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 77.7%, the actual is 69.7%, a residual of -7.9 points.

In the broader community, census data for Clinton County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,981 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Clinton County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,129 students), of which Calamus-Wheatland Secondary Attendance Center is one.

Nearest neighbor: Calamus-Wheatland Elementary Attendance Center, around 4.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Calamus-Wheatland Secondary Attendance Center. On composite proficiency, Calamus-Wheatland Secondary Attendance Center comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 72.1%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Calamus-Wheatland Secondary Attendance Center has edged down 15%, going from 215 students in 2018 to 182 in 2025.

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