Hinton High School

Hinton High School, an intimate high school in Hinton, Iowa, operated by Hinton Comm School District, works with 370 students, covering grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 468 students each, so Hinton High School sits 21% leaner than that benchmark.

Hinton Comm School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 860 students; Hinton High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Hinton High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). Beyond that, the school reports 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 11% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Plymouth County's rate of about 29%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hinton High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 86.7%; this one delivers 84.4%.

Zooming out to the county, Plymouth County reports that median household income runs about $83,251, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Plymouth County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,219 students), Hinton High School is one campus in the mix.

Hinton Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hinton High School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 67.3%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hinton High School has edged up 75%, going from 212 students in 2018 to 370 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

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