Crestwood High School

Located at 1000 Schroder Dr, in Cresco, Iowa, Crestwood High School is a compact four-year high school that teaches 346 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by Howard-Winneshiek Comm School District. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 468 students each, so Crestwood High School sits 26% smaller than that benchmark.

Howard-Winneshiek Comm School District runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,021 students. Crestwood High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Crestwood High School lists that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 7% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 44% of students at Crestwood High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Crestwood High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.8%, the actual is 76.2%, a residual of +6.4 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Howard County put the typical household earns roughly $67,446 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Howard County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,452 students), of which Crestwood High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Crestwood Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Crestwood High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 71.7%.

Crestwood High School operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 41%: 582 students in 2018 compared to 346 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.