Gladbrook-Reinbeck Jr. High & High School

Gladbrook-Reinbeck Jr. High & High School operates as a cozy four-year high school in Reinbeck, Iowa, one of the schools within Gladbrook-Reinbeck Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 207 students spanning grades 7 through 12. That puts it 56% below the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 468 students.

Gladbrook-Reinbeck Jr. High & High School is one of 3 schools operated by Gladbrook-Reinbeck Comm School District, a district that teaches 480 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Gladbrook-Reinbeck Jr. High & High School logs that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Gladbrook-Reinbeck Jr. High & High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 73.1%; this one delivers 75.1%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Grundy County put the typical household earns roughly $87,205 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Grundy County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,334 students), of which Gladbrook-Reinbeck Jr. High & High School is one.

Gladbrook-Reinbeck Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 6 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Gladbrook-Reinbeck Jr. High & High School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 82.9%.

Gladbrook-Reinbeck Jr. High & High School operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 7%: 222 students in 2018 compared to 207 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 96% to 89% across the same window.

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