Graettinger-Terril High School

Graettinger-Terril High School operates as a very small senior high in Graettinger, Iowa, overseen by Graettinger-Terril Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 128 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 73% below the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 468 students.

Graettinger-Terril Comm School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 325 students. Graettinger-Terril High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Graettinger-Terril High School logs that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 4% Hispanic. Compared to Palo Alto County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Graettinger-Terril High School has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.9:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 46% 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, Graettinger-Terril High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 68.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.3%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Palo Alto County put median household earnings sit near $72,781, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Palo Alto County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,472 students), Graettinger-Terril High School is one campus in the mix.

Graettinger-Terril Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 4 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Graettinger-Terril High School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 67.1%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Graettinger-Terril High School has grew 20%, going from 107 students in 2018 to 128 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 9.2:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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