Glenwood Senior High School

Glenwood Senior High School is a middle-of-the-pack four-year high school in Glenwood, Iowa, run under Glenwood Comm School District. The school serves 570 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 468 students each, so Glenwood Senior High School sits 22% bigger than that benchmark.

Glenwood Senior High School is one of 4 schools operated by Glenwood Comm School District, a district that teaches 2,001 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Glenwood Senior High School lists that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Glenwood Senior High School reports 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Glenwood Senior High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 73.5%; this one delivers 75.2%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Mills County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,753 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Mills County's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,449 students), Glenwood Senior High School is one campus in the mix.

Glenwood Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Glenwood Senior High School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 69.2%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Glenwood Senior High School's enrollment has declined 10% since 2018, when it stood at 634 (now 570). Over the same period, the White share declined from 93% to 88%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.