Grinnell Community Senior High School

Set in Grinnell, Iowa, Grinnell Community Senior High School is a mid-tier high school, part of Grinnell-Newburg Comm School District. It serves 512 students across grades 9 through 12.

Within Grinnell-Newburg Comm School District, which oversees 5 schools and 1,534 students, Grinnell Community Senior High School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Grinnell Community Senior High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%). Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. Compared to Poweshiek County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Grinnell Community Senior High School has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 32% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Grinnell Community Senior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.1%, the actual is 81.4%, a residual of +5.3 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Poweshiek County indicate the typical household earns roughly $67,391 per year, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Grinnell Community Senior High School is one of 11 public schools in Poweshiek County (combined enrollment of about 2,566 students).

Bailey Park Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Grinnell Community Senior High School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Grinnell Community Senior High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 80.5%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Grinnell Community Senior High School has showed little movement, going from 514 students in 2018 to 512 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.