Colfax-Mingo Jr/Sr High School

Colfax-Mingo Jr/Sr High School is one of the low-enrollment 9-12 campuss in Colfax, Iowa, part of Colfax-Mingo Comm School District, with 287 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 39% leaner than the state mean of about 468.

Within Colfax-Mingo Comm School District, which oversees 2 schools and 686 students, Colfax-Mingo Jr/Sr High School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Colfax-Mingo Jr/Sr High School logs that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic.

On the resource side, The school reports having 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Roughly 34% of students at Colfax-Mingo Jr/Sr High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Colfax-Mingo Jr/Sr High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 75.0%; this one delivers 68.5%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Jasper County indicate median household income runs about $71,311, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jasper County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,668 students), of which Colfax-Mingo Jr/Sr High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Colfax-Mingo Elementary School, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Colfax-Mingo Jr/Sr High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 75.0%.

Colfax-Mingo Jr/Sr High School operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 13%: 330 students in 2018 compared to 287 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 93% to 86%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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