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Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont Jr/Sr High
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ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Iowa's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont Jr/Sr High
Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont Jr/Sr High, a mid-sized high school in Eddyville, Iowa, one of the schools within Eddyville-Blakesburg- Fremont CSD, instructs 431 students, covering grades 7 through 12.
Within Eddyville-Blakesburg- Fremont CSD, which oversees 4 schools and 916 students, Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont Jr/Sr High is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont Jr/Sr High reports that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 39% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Wapello County (around 48%), the school's rate is south of typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont Jr/Sr High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 72.7%; this one delivers 65.7%.
In the area at large, Wapello County reports that median household earnings sit near $64,766, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont Jr/Sr High is one of 18 public schools in Wapello County (combined enrollment of about 6,892 students).
Nearest neighbor: Eddyville Elementary, around 0.9 miles off. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont Jr/Sr High ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 72.0%.
The school occupies a countryside site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont Jr/Sr High's enrollment has shrank 4% since 2018, when it stood at 451 (now 431). Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.
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Related schools
- Eddyville ElementaryElementary · 274 students
- Fremont ElementaryElementary · 108 students
- Blakesburg ElementaryElementary · 103 students
- Eddyville Elementary0.9 mi · 274
- Fremont Elementary10.2 mi · 108
- Oskaloosa Middle School10.3 mi · 404
- Oskaloosa Virtual Academy10.3 mi · 25
- Oskaloosa High School10.4 mi · 632
- Oskaloosa Elementary School10.4 mi · 903