Dunkerton High School

Set in Dunkerton, Iowa, Dunkerton High School is a modestly sized high school, one of the schools within Dunkerton Comm School District. It enrolls 200 students across grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 468 students each, so Dunkerton High School sits 57% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Dunkerton Comm School District, which oversees 2 schools and 415 students, Dunkerton High School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Dunkerton High School reports that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Dunkerton High School has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.6:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Black Hawk County's rate of about 52%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Dunkerton High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 75.9%, the actual is 74.0%, a residual of -1.9 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Black Hawk County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,417 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Black Hawk County's 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,224 students), Dunkerton High School is one campus in the mix.

Dunkerton Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Dunkerton High School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 77.4%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Dunkerton High School's enrollment has ticked down 20% since 2018, when it stood at 251 (now 200). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

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