Clarke Community High School

Clarke Community High School is one of the mid-tier senior highs in Osceola, Iowa, part of Clarke Comm School District, with 421 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.

Across the 3 schools in Clarke Comm School District (1,362 students total), Clarke Community High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Clarke Community High School lists that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 45% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Clarke Community High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.7%, the actual is 62.4%, a residual of -3.3 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Clarke County put the typical household earns roughly $71,641 per year, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Clarke County's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,672 students), Clarke Community High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Clarke Community Middle School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Clarke Community High School. On composite proficiency, Clarke Community High School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 71.5%.

Clarke Community High School operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 3%: 407 students in 2018 compared to 421 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 26% to 45% across the same window.

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