Lewis Central Senior High School

As a large high school in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Lewis Central Senior High School instructs 1,020 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Lewis Central Comm School District. Enrollment runs roughly 118% above the state mean of about 468.

Within Lewis Central Comm School District, which oversees 4 schools and 3,143 students, Lewis Central Senior High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Lewis Central Senior High School reports that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 14% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Pottawattamie County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Lewis Central Senior High School has 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lewis Central Senior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 75.5%, the actual is 74.3%, a residual of -1.2 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Pottawattamie County) reports that median household income runs about $73,602, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Pottawattamie County's 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,270 students), Lewis Central Senior High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Lewis Central Middle School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lewis Central Senior High School at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 66.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 10%: 926 students in 2018 compared to 1,020 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 88% to 79%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 today.

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