Madrid High School

Madrid High School is one of the tight-knit 9-12 campuss in Madrid, Iowa, run under Madrid Comm School District, with 195 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 58% below the state mean of about 468.

Madrid High School is one of 4 schools operated by Madrid Comm School District, a district that hosts 628 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Madrid High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). Other groups include 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 18% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Boone County (around 28%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Madrid High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 82.7%, the actual is 80.0%, a residual of -2.7 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Boone County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $83,531 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Boone County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,735 students), of which Madrid High School is one.

Madrid Junior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Madrid High School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 79.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Madrid High School has fell 12%, going from 222 students in 2018 to 195 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.