Dubuque Senior High School

Dubuque Senior High School is a four-year high school of high-enrollment scale in Dubuque, Iowa, overseen by Dubuque Comm School District, hosting 1,490 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 468 students per school, that is 218% bigger than typical.

Dubuque Comm School District runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 9,843 students. Dubuque Senior High School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Dubuque Senior High School lists that White students make up the majority at 73%. Other groups include 11% Black, 6% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 3% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 89% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 132 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Around 44% 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, Dubuque Senior High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 70.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 65.0%.

In the surrounding community, Dubuque County reports that median household income runs about $77,630, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Dubuque County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,164 students), Dubuque Senior High School is one campus in the mix.

Irving Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dubuque Senior High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Dubuque Senior High School at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 56.2%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Dubuque Senior High School's enrollment has ticked down 6% since 2018, when it stood at 1,585 (now 1,490). White enrollment moved from 79% to 73% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Dubuque Senior High School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.