Interstate 35 High School
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Test scores
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 88 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 82% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Iowa's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Interstate 35 High School
Interstate 35 High School, a compact secondary school in Truro, Iowa, one of the schools within Interstate 35 Comm School District, hosts 385 students, covering grades 7 through 12.
Interstate 35 Comm School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,071 students; Interstate 35 High School is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Interstate 35 High School reports that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 4% Hispanic. Compared to Madison County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at school resources, Interstate 35 High School logs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Around 21% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Interstate 35 High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 81.7%, the actual is 80.5%, a residual of -1.2 points.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Madison County put the typical household earns roughly $90,855 per year, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Interstate 35 High School is one of 10 public schools in Madison County (combined enrollment of about 3,355 students).
Nearest neighbor: Interstate 35 Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Interstate 35 High School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 73.1%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 14%: 449 students in 2018 compared to 385 in 2025.
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- Interstate 35 Elementary SchoolElementary · 458 students
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