Lake Mills Senior High School

Lake Mills Senior High School, an intimate 9-12 campus in Lake Mills, Iowa, operated by Lake Mills Comm School District, educates 193 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 468 students per school, that is 59% leaner than typical.

Lake Mills Senior High School is one of 3 schools operated by Lake Mills Comm School District, a district that instructs 642 students overall.

On demographics, Lake Mills Senior High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%); the rest looks like 15% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 89% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Lake Mills Senior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 74.3%, the actual is 79.7%, a residual of +5.4 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Winnebago County) records that median household income runs about $67,642, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Winnebago County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,190 students), Lake Mills Senior High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Lake Mills Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Lake Mills Senior High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lake Mills Senior High School at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 77.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Lake Mills Senior High School's enrollment has ticked down 7% since 2018, when it stood at 208 (now 193). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 91% to 81%.

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