Cascade Junior-Senior High School

Cascade Junior-Senior High School, a compact high school in Cascade, Iowa, part of Western Dubuque Comm School District, serves 392 students, covering grades 6 through 12.

Western Dubuque Comm School District comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,643 students; Cascade Junior-Senior High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Cascade Junior-Senior High School shows that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 6% Hispanic. Compared to Dubuque County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Cascade Junior-Senior High School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Around 23% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Dubuque County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Cascade Junior-Senior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 80.3%, the actual is 84.2%, a residual of +3.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, Dubuque County reports that the typical household earns roughly $77,630 per year, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Cascade Junior-Senior High School is one of 26 public schools in Dubuque County (combined enrollment of about 13,164 students).

The closest other public school is Cascade Elementary School, roughly 0.6 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cascade Junior-Senior High School at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 77.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 19%: 330 students in 2018 compared to 392 in 2025.

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