Indianola High School

Indianola High School, a sizable senior high in Indianola, Iowa, part of Indianola Comm School District, caters to 1,165 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 149% above the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 468 students.

Indianola Comm School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,599 students. Indianola High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Indianola High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%); the rest breaks down as 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.2:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 24% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Indianola High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 79.9%, the actual is 76.1%, a residual of -3.8 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Warren County indicate median household earnings sit near $94,588, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Indianola High School is one of 20 public schools in Warren County (combined enrollment of about 10,473 students).

Indianola Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Indianola High School at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 75.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Five-year trend. Indianola High School's enrollment has expanded 3% since 2018, when it stood at 1,132 (now 1,165).

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