Lisbon Secondary School

Lisbon Secondary School, an intimate senior high in Lisbon, Iowa, overseen by Lisbon Comm School District, serves 301 students, covering grades 7 through 12. That puts it 36% below the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 468 students.

Lisbon Comm School District runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 762 students. Lisbon Secondary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lisbon Secondary School lists that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 18% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Linn County (around 40%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lisbon Secondary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 83.0%; this one delivers 80.2%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Linn County indicate the typical household earns roughly $77,649 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Linn County runs 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,480 students), of which Lisbon Secondary School is one.

Lisbon Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lisbon Secondary School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 80.2%.

Lisbon Secondary School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Lisbon Secondary School's enrollment has rose 63% since 2018, when it stood at 185 (now 301).

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Lisbon Secondary School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.