Charter Oak-Ute Junior High School

Charter Oak-Ute Junior High School is one of the very small junior highs in Charter Oak, Iowa, run under Charter Oak-Ute Comm School District, with 49 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 400 students each, so Charter Oak-Ute Junior High School sits 88% below that benchmark.

Charter Oak-Ute Comm School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 166 students; Charter Oak-Ute Junior High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Charter Oak-Ute Junior High School records that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 10% Hispanic, 2% Black. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting Charter Oak-Ute Junior High School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 57% of students at Charter Oak-Ute Junior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Charter Oak-Ute Junior High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 63.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 68.5%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Crawford County indicate median household earnings sit near $67,027, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Crawford County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,007 students), of which Charter Oak-Ute Junior High School is one.

The closest other public school is Charter Oak-Ute Elementary School, roughly 0.0 miles away. On composite proficiency, Charter Oak-Ute Junior High School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 73.6%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Charter Oak-Ute Junior High School's enrollment has increased 4% since 2018, when it stood at 47 (now 49). Over the same period, the Asian share shrank from 4% to 0%. Class-load math has grew: from 8.0:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 in 2025.

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