Keokuk High School

As an average-sized secondary school in Keokuk, Iowa, Keokuk High School hosts 583 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Keokuk Comm School District. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 468 students each, so Keokuk High School sits 25% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 5 schools in Keokuk Comm School District (1,720 students total), Keokuk High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Keokuk High School reports that nearly all students (83%) are White; the rest is composed of 9% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 4% Black. By comparison, Lee County as a whole is about 91% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Keokuk High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 67.1%; this one delivers 63.5%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Lee County) reports that median household earnings sit near $62,382, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lee County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,014 students), Keokuk High School is one campus in the mix.

Keokuk Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Keokuk High School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Keokuk High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 52.3%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 5%: 557 students in 2018 compared to 583 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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