Easton Valley Junior High / High School

Set in Preston, Iowa, Easton Valley Junior High / High School is a modestly sized high school, one of the schools within Easton Valley Comm School District. It caters to 198 students across grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 468 students per school, that is 58% below typical.

Within Easton Valley Comm School District, which oversees 2 schools and 485 students, Easton Valley Junior High / High School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Easton Valley Junior High / High School shows that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Easton Valley Junior High / High School has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Easton Valley Junior High / High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 39% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Easton Valley Junior High / High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 72.5%; actual is 61.0%, a gap of -11.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, Jackson County reports that median household income runs about $74,186, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Easton Valley Junior High / High School is one of 9 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 2,628 students).

Easton Valley Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.5 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Easton Valley Junior High / High School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 67.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 13%: 228 students in 2018 compared to 198 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.