CAM Jr./Sr. High School
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Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 72% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Iowa's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CAM Jr./Sr. High School
CAM Jr./Sr. High School is a low-enrollment secondary school in Anita, Iowa, operated by CAM Comm School District. The school works with 188 students in grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 60% leaner than the state mean of about 468.
Across the 5 schools in CAM Comm School District (1,950 students total), CAM Jr./Sr. High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, CAM Jr./Sr. High School records that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 2% Black. Compared to Cass County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the resource side, CAM Jr./Sr. High School lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting CAM Jr./Sr. High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 39% of students at CAM Jr./Sr. High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
After controlling for student poverty, CAM Jr./Sr. High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 72.3%; this one delivers 68.9%.
Across the wider county, census data for Cass County shows median household income runs about $63,013, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Cass County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,957 students), CAM Jr./Sr. High School is one campus in the mix.
Iowa Connections Academy Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CAM Jr./Sr. High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 74.1%.
The school occupies a countryside site.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 32%: 142 students in 2018 compared to 188 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 98% to 94% over that span.
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