Knoxville High School

Set in Knoxville, Iowa, Knoxville High School is a mid-sized high school, run under Knoxville Comm School District. It serves 508 students across grades 9 through 12.

Knoxville Comm School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,664 students; Knoxville High School is among them.

On demographics, Knoxville High School logs that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Knoxville High School shows 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 38% of students at Knoxville High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Marion County (around 29%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Knoxville High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.0%, the actual is 68.6%, a residual of -4.4 points.

Across the wider county, Marion County reports that the typical household earns roughly $78,680 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Marion County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,571 students), of which Knoxville High School is one.

The closest other public school is Knoxville Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Knoxville High School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 67.0%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Five-year trend. Knoxville High School's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 509 (now 508).

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.