Diagonal Junior-Senior High School

Diagonal Junior-Senior High School is one of the tiny 9-12 campuss in Diagonal, Iowa, operated by Diagonal Comm School District, with 52 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. That puts it 89% below the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 468 students.

Within Diagonal Comm School District, which oversees 2 schools and 110 students, Diagonal Junior-Senior High School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Diagonal Junior-Senior High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (100%). Compared to Ringgold County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, On paper, Diagonal Junior-Senior High School has 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Diagonal Junior-Senior High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 69.8%; actual is 58.8%, a gap of -11.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Ringgold County) shows that median household earnings sit near $73,346, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Ringgold County's 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 694 students), Diagonal Junior-Senior High School is one campus in the mix.

Diagonal Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Diagonal Junior-Senior High School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 77.6%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Diagonal Junior-Senior High School's enrollment has contracted 10% since 2018, when it stood at 58 (now 52). Class-load math has grew: from 9.3:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.