Clinton High School

Clinton High School operates as an expansive senior high in Clinton, Iowa, run under Clinton Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 981 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 110% larger than the state mean of about 468.

Clinton Comm School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,248 students. Clinton High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Clinton High School logs that White students make up the majority at 70%. The remainder reads as 11% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 9% Black. By comparison, Clinton County as a whole is about 90% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Clinton High School logs 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.0:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 46% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Clinton High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 68.8%; actual is 55.6%, a gap of -13.2 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Clinton County put median household income runs about $66,981, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Clinton High School is one of 18 public schools in Clinton County (combined enrollment of about 7,129 students).

Jefferson Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Clinton High School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Clinton High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 61.0%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Clinton High School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 967 (now 981). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 78% to 70%. Class-load math has rose: from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

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