George Washington High School

George Washington High School is a secondary school of roomy scale in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, one of the schools within Cedar Rapids Comm School District, teacheing 1,182 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 153% above the state mean of about 468.

Cedar Rapids Comm School District comprises 35 schools with combined enrollment of 15,494 students; George Washington High School is among them.

On demographics, George Washington High School lists that 54% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 25% Black, 10% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

Looking at school resources, George Washington High School records 77 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting George Washington High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 55% of students at George Washington High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Linn County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, George Washington High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.6%, the actual is 60.2%, a residual of -4.4 points.

Across the wider county, Linn County reports that median household income runs about $77,649, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Linn County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,480 students), George Washington High School is one campus in the mix.

Franklin Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around George Washington High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts George Washington High School at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 55.2%.

George Washington High School operates from an inner-city location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 13%: 1,359 students in 2018 compared to 1,182 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 61% to 54%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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