Maple Valley-Anthon Oto High School

Set in Mapleton, Iowa, Maple Valley-Anthon Oto High School is a close-knit 9-12 campus, one of the schools within Maple Valley-Anthon Oto Comm School District. It enrolls 256 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 45% below the state mean of about 468.

Within Maple Valley-Anthon Oto Comm School District, which oversees 4 schools and 602 students, Maple Valley-Anthon Oto High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Maple Valley-Anthon Oto High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Beyond that, the school logs 7% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Maple Valley-Anthon Oto High School has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Maple Valley-Anthon Oto High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Monona County (around 47%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Maple Valley-Anthon Oto High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.2%, the actual is 69.9%, a residual of -3.3 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Monona County indicate median household income runs about $68,377, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Monona County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,210 students), of which Maple Valley-Anthon Oto High School is one.

Mapleton Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Maple Valley-Anthon Oto High School at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 72.2%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Maple Valley-Anthon Oto High School has expanded 5%, going from 243 students in 2018 to 256 in 2025.

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