Columbus Community Junior High School

Columbus Community Junior High School is a tiny junior high in Columbus Junction, Iowa, part of Columbus Comm School District. The school instructs 104 students in grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 400 students each, so Columbus Community Junior High School sits 74% below that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in Columbus Comm School District (707 students total), Columbus Community Junior High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Columbus Community Junior High School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 34% White, 12% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 16% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.6:1. The state averages around 15.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Louisa County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Columbus Community Junior High School ranks in the top 10% of Iowa public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 60.2%; Columbus Community Junior High School posts 69.7%, +9.5 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Louisa County) records that median household earnings sit near $77,354, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Columbus Community Junior High School is one of 9 public schools in Louisa County (combined enrollment of about 2,165 students).

Columbus Community High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Columbus Community Junior High School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 67.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Columbus Community Junior High School's enrollment has ticked down 24% since 2018, when it stood at 136 (now 104). The Hispanic share of enrollment contracted from 68% to 51% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 25.3:1 in 2018 to 20.6:1 in 2025.

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